Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls
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The controversy continues to grow.

Linus Media Group CEO Terren Tong also responded via email, saying he was “shocked at the allegations and the company described” in Reeve’s posts. He went on to note that “as part of this process, beyond an internal review we will also be hiring an outside investigator to look into the allegations and will commit to publish the findings and implementing any corrective actions that may arise because of this.”

  • 520@kbin.social
    221·
    1 year ago

    The way I see it, this could well be a career ender for Linus. He gets his hands on novel, unreleased hardware, and then he botches the review and gives it to the highest bidder. Potentially a competing company.

    No one is going to trust him with their pre-release hardware ever again after this.

    Heck, if this was any reasonably sized company, I suspect we’d already be hearing about lawsuit settlements of significant sums of cash.

    • Tangentism@lemmy.ml
      15·
      1 year ago

      Its definitely going to wipe out any standing he has with others in the industry: he gave a scathing review about a prototype that they had failed to correctly install, despite clear instructions with a compatible GPU card sent to them. Add that to the constant incorrect and misinformation that is often caught in post production with on-screen corrections

      It seems that allure of increasing revenue streams with a ridiculous production turnaround had a direct impact on their quality and integrity and now with the allegations that Madison has come forward with, it would appear the rot had set in long before it was noticeable to external parties.

      Its going to play out over the next week or so whether LMG is in a death spiral.

      • 520@kbin.social
        6·
        1 year ago

        Yeah…any one of these issues would be bad enough…the whole trifecta does not bode well at all for Linus.