‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine

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Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

She claimed Mr. Baldoni had improvised unwanted kissing and discussed his sex life, including encounters in which he said he may not have received consent. Mr. Heath had shown her a video of his wife naked, she said, and he had watched Ms. Lively in her trailer when she was topless and having body makeup removed, despite her asking him to look away. She said that both men repeatedly entered her makeup trailer uninvited while she was undressed, including when she was breastfeeding.

Ms. Abel relayed his frustration to Ms. Nathan: “I think you guys need to be tough and show the strength of what you guys can do in these scenarios. He wants to feel like she can be buried.”

“Of course- but you know when we send over documents we can’t send over the work we will or could do because that could get us in a lot of trouble,” Ms. Nathan responded, adding, “We can’t write we will destroy her.”

Moments later, she said, “Imagine if a document saying all the things that he wants ends up in the wrong hands.”

“You know we can bury anyone,” she wrote.

Grotesque, and chilling.

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reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My favorite part is where they point out they are hiring out posts on Reddit:

“We are crushing it on Reddit,” Mr. Wallace told Ms. Nathan, according to a text she sent Ms. Abel on Aug. 9.

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- cabbage@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Posts are one thing, and difficult enough to spot/moderate. Vote manipulation is a whole different story. Burying a story you don't want to gain traction is easy in Reddit, and if the post ends up gaining traction you can easily change the discourse in the comment section by burying critical voices.
  
  It's probably already happening on Lemmy, but it'll get much worse as the platform grows bigger. I have no idea how it could be stopped. Kbin originally started out not federating downvotes, with this challenge probably being part of the reasoning.
  
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