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The New Yorker Fires Jeffrey Toobin After Investigation Into Zoom Masturbation Incident

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The New Yorker to Jeffrey Toobin: Beat It!

The top writer had been suspended last month after exposing himself during a video call with colleagues.
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The New Yorker has fired staff writer Jeffrey Toobin after a weeks-long investigation into an incident in which he exposed himself during a video call with colleagues last month.

"I am writing to share with you that our investigation regarding Jeffrey Toobin is complete, and as a result, he is no longer affiliated with our company," read a memo from Stan Duncan, CondƩ Nast's chief people officer, to staffers obtained by The Daily Beast.
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Vice: New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin for Zoom Dick Incident

The headline says it all pretty much. (EDIT: headline has been changed: New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin for Masturbating on Zoom Call) https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdgm4/new-yorker-suspends-jeffrey-toobin-for-zoom-dick-incident EDIT:
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Eidan

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How bad was this Toobin masturbating incident? Are we talking a brief glimpse, or long extended period where viewers can see him gratifying himself?
 

Allard

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He shall be forever be remembered for this move, when you jack it in a remote meeting, you are toobin' it
 
Bigg

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Eidan said:
How bad was this Toobin masturbating incident? Are we talking a brief glimpse, or long extended period where viewers can see him gratifying himself?
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He literally aimed the webcam at his junk. Apparently he was on another zoom call during a work break (presumably a cybersex thing?) and didn't realize he was still on the work call too.
 
Volimar

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I want to post the dodger gif, but I'm afraid it might be considered NSFW.
 
MajesticSoup

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Googled his name and apparently he had a child through an affair and goes to swingers clubs alot. Guy seems to have a sex addiction.
 
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Curler

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Did they make joke videos about Zoom calls on this sorta thing? Before this even happened?
 
Gaf Zombie

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Looking forward to the Anthony Weiner and Jeffrey Toobin podcast.

Edit: They should call it 'All Out: With Toobin and Weiner'
 
Nephtes

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As a veteran writer, I bet it's going to be really tough for him to resist the urge to ever use the cliche "the emperor has no clothes" ever again, but yeah... he's going to want to delete that one from his lexicon.
 
jml

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There's a part of me that feels bad - I think what he did was just extremely stupid and probably not malicious but now this is the main thing he's going to be known for forever. At the same time though you kinda have to fire someone after an incident like this so I have no problem with the New Yorker's decision here.
 
Ra

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WFH Pro-Tips: Always use the hardware shortcut that disables your camera, until you really really want to be seen.
 
msdstc

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jml said:
There's a part of me that feels bad - I think what he did was just extremely stupid and probably not malicious but now this is the main thing he's going to be known for forever. At the same time though you kinda have to fire someone after an incident like this so I have no problem with the New Yorker's decision here.
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Maybe I misinterpreted this, but wasn't he staring at his coworker on their camera feed and jacking it? That's fucking wildly inappropriate and invasive.
 
BossAttack

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Investigation:

INVESTIGATOR: Hey man, were you jacking it?

TOOBIN: šŸ˜ž yes.

*weeks later*

NEW YORKER: Our through investigation is complete and our investigators have presented their findings to the New Yorker editorial staff who, after much deliberation, have chosen to let Mr. Toobin go. We again would like to thank our investigation team for such a full investigation.
 
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