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Arianna Huffington Ignored Sexual Misconduct at The Huffington Post
Gizmodo ^ | 11/14/2017 | Melanie Ehrenkranz

Posted on 11/14/2017 11:21:31 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden

When Susan Fowler rocked Uber’s world with a meticulous account of the company’s sexual harassment and gender discrimination issues, the ride-sharing service turned to its only female board member to help clean up its culture (and its image). Arianna Huffington was perfectly poised to position herself as the feminist savior who would advocate for Uber’s women—she oversaw the subsequent Eric Holder investigation, and promised that “no brilliant jerks will be allowed, and no one will be protected because they are top performers.” But being a powerful woman with a stake in a company, and its profits, doesn’t mean Huffington was actually the best choice to champion women struggling to make their voices heard.

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Huffington’s well-documented history of fostering a toxic work culture, and failing to address inappropriate behavior from a “brilliant jerk” in her own midst, calls into question the sincerity behind her pledge to help bring positive change to Uber’s culture. Most notably, her history with a former managing editor whose “transfer” to launch HuffPost India was later revealed to be result of an HR investigation into whether he had sexually harassed multiple young women in the New York office. Gizmodo recently revisited those allegations and not only independently confirmed that the investigation was indeed the reason for that managing editor’s transfer, but that Huffington knew about his actions before they were reported to HR, according to a former employee with direct knowledge of the investigation.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: ariannahuffington; harassment; huffington; huffingtonpost; misconduct; sexual; sexualmisconduct
Interesting, Ms Uber Feminist Ariana Huffington allows a workplace like this to go on....
1 posted on 11/14/2017 11:21:31 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
No doubt Toxic Masculinity from the Executive Suite is responsible.

Wait a minute...


2 posted on 11/14/2017 11:27:09 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

You know what - I’ve gotten to where I simply don’t care about sexual “misconduct” any more. If no laws were broken, I no longer care. This whole thing is getting nuts.

Our culture is becoming both “anything goes” (same sex marriage, men in ladies rooms, gender identification changes BEFORE puberty, etc.) and “throw the guy out of office/job for what he did LEGALLY decades ago.

It’s laughable.

Note: I do care if it relates to the job they are hired/elected to do.

Remember, the man after God’s own heart also murdered a man to get his wife. i.e. looking at people’s distant past is not what counts. Where they’ve ended up, character-wise is what is relevant.


3 posted on 11/14/2017 11:28:29 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; All

these self appointed effete elite media types would be shocked and have the vapors if they discovered sex at the playboy mansion.


4 posted on 11/14/2017 11:29:27 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

But its OK for demon dressed perverted trannies to twerk with children at the library...


5 posted on 11/14/2017 11:51:57 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Sexist pigs!


6 posted on 11/14/2017 2:09:15 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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