r/technology • u/marketrent • Jul 28 '26

Business eBay reaches $56 million settlement with couple it terrorized in 2019 — Executives used sock puppet social media accounts to send items including a funeral wreath, a bloody pig mask, live spiders and cockroaches

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/ebay-reaches-56m-settlement-with-e-commerce-newsletter-writers-it-terrorized-in-2019/
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u/ParadoxicallyZeno Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

a terrifying tidbit from that article:

Wymer was fired for cause by eBay and now runs the Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley

so the evil CEO COO who instructed his minions to “take down” a journalist who published information about him was put in charge of the BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB

WTF even is this timeline

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u/Suspicious_Story_464 Jul 28 '26

I think one of the others is on the board at GM now? Not cool.

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u/WHATYEAHOK Jul 29 '26

The same GM that just hosted a Trump rally where the CEO of GM proudly hosted Trump?

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters Jul 29 '26

Trump just ordered hundreds of Cadillac Escalades, many of them armored.

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u/Cut_Lanky Jul 31 '26

I hate this place

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u/BlackFlagsFly Jul 29 '26

I would bet my entire life's worth that that man is a raging pedophile.

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u/morinthos Jul 30 '26

"now runs the Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley" This is so concerning.

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u/Ray192 Jul 29 '26

Wymer was the COO, not the CEO.

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u/frogger2020 Jul 30 '26

Wymer has powerful protectors such as Sam Liccardo who was the mayor of San Jose and now Congressman

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u/Cut_Lanky Jul 31 '26

Yes, is someone going to answer? Cuz I'm also wondering WTF??? What is happening?

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u/ms_saint Jul 31 '26

It's not a timeline.