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What's it like to get trolled by an HBO CEO?

Vulture critic Kathryn VanArendonk talks about what it was like to see her tweets discussed by HBO bosses in text messages reported by Rolling Stone.

TV critic Kathryn VanArendonk talks about the lawsuit that revealed she'd been the subject of a HBO text chain

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DANA POINT, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 27: Casey Bloys, Chairman & CEO, HBO and HBO Max Content speaks onstage during Vox Media's 2023 Code Conference at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel on September 27, 2023 in Dana Point, California.
Casey Bloys, Chairman & CEO, HBO and HBO Max Content speaks onstage during Vox Media's 2023 Code Conference on September 27, 2023. (Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media)

HBO's CEO Casey Bloys has apologized for creating fake social media accounts to clap back at TV critics who wrote negative reviews.

Today on Commotion, Vulture critic and friend of the show Kathryn VanArendonk tells host Elamin Abdelmahmoud about what it was like to see her tweets discussed by HBO bosses in text messages reported by Rolling Stone.

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You can listen to the full discussion from today's show on CBC Listen or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, available wherever you get your podcasts.

Interview with Kathryn VanArendonk produced by Jane van Koeverden.

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