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Joy Saha

HBO admitted to trolling critics online

HBO has landed itself in hot water after its CEO, Casey Bloys, admitted to using various aliases on X (formerly known as Twitter) to troll critics who wrote negative reviews of several HBO shows.

“For those of you who know me, you know that I am a programming executive very, very passionate about the shows that we decide to do. And the people who do them and the people who work on them,” Bloys said Thursday morning at a New York promotional event for HBO and Max, according to Variety. “I want the shows to be great. I want people to love them. I want you all to love them. It's very important to me what you all think of the shows.

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