HBO Boss Swears He No Longer Trolls Critics With Sock Puppet Accounts

One day after news broke that HBO chairman and CEO Casey Bloys had used fake social media accounts to troll critics who wrote unfavorably about the network’s programming, the executive now claims he’s found a better way to vent his frustrations—by pestering them via direct message.

“Now if I take issue with something in a review or something I see, I DM many of you,” Bloys said Thursday morning, as he introduced a presentation of HBO and Max’s upcoming slate for press in New York.

“Many of you are gracious enough to engage in a back-and-forth,” he continued, “and I think that is probably a much healthier way to go about this.”

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