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    $#@!roaches, porn and a bloody pig mask: How eBay harassed bloggers.

    One of the most explosive Silicon Valley scandals of all time was a poorly run, easily discovered scheme inspired by a 1980s teen comedy, conducted by a company long past its heyday to harass a mom and pop blog.

    Shocking headlines poured out of newsrooms in June when six former eBay (EBAY) employees and contractors were arrested (and a seventh was arrested in July) for sending a bloody pig mask and $#@!roaches to a Boston-area couple that operated the tiny publication EcommerceBytes. The US Attorney for Massachusetts provided many lurid details of the scheme, including how eBay staff sent the couple threatening messages, fly larvae, live spiders, and posted the couple's address to Craigslist to invite swingers to knock on their door "any
    time of day or night."
    But the New York Times Sunday published a far more in-depth report about the scandal, including new details about the lengths the company went to harass the bloggers, whom former CEO Devin Wenig hated.

    This is the story:


    https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/27/tech/...ask/index.html


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    Inside eBay’s $#@!roach Cult: The Ghastly Story of a Stalking Scandal

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