While HBO and HBO Max may have become one of the top television networks with the efforts of its CEO and chairman Casey Bloys and his team. We know an incident that occured last year and made many to slam Bloys for it too. For all those unversed with what happened, the social media had gone abuzz accusing Bloys of deploying fake accounts to the staffs to hit back at tv critics.

Here’s everything to know about HBO boss Casey Bloys deploying fake accounts to hit back at tv critics.

HBO CEO Casey Bloys and the accusations of creating fake accounts to hit back at tv critics

HBO or any other television network often gets its shows and dramas to get praised for its content and sometimes they are even slammed by the viewers or the tv critics for the same. Well, something similar happened with HBO CEO and chairman Casey Bloys too.

Casey Bloys seemed to have got annoyed with some comments of the tv critics and thought to take revenge of the same in an unexpected way. In fact, everyone was shocked when reports of Casey Bloys deploying fake accounts to his staffs to hit back at tv critics came out in public.

It was Rolling Stone that broke out the news about Casey having his team ready by giving them fake accounts to hit back at the negative comments coming their way. In fact, the report turned out to be true which ultimately resulted in Casey to apologize for it too.

Casey Bloys apologizing for tasking his staffs with fake accounts to hit back at tv critics

Opening up about when it all started from Casey Bloys, the HBO CEO said that it took place when he “began working home and doing an unhealthy amount of scrolling through Twitter.” During his apologies for the same he said “And I came up with a very, very dumb idea to vent my frustration.”

The idea to hit back at tv critics by deploying fake accounts to his staff was surely a bad idea of Casey Bloys and it drew criticism eventually too. But realising his mistake, Bloys said in his apology to the tv critics as “I do apologise to the people who were mentioned in the leaked texts.”

As a corrected way he admitted to now directly messaging the journalists for their feedback. The incident no doubt was going viral everywhere on social media. As Rolling Stone had even reviewed a comment of a tv critic that seemingly annoyed Casey and he had drafted a response to that comment for his employee though that response wasn’t sent.

However, many other tweets were sent from the fake accounts created for hitting back at those critics. Yet, Casey finally took his lesson from the incident and was lucky enough to have his position secured as the CEO and chairman of HBO even after the incident, the severity of which may have caused more harm to Bloys than what happened.