PDS 5.23 The Truth About Linus Tech Tips’ Controversy, Harassment, & Allegations, & Today’s News
The Philip DeFranco Show
philip defranco
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sup you beautiful bastards. We got so much to talk about today so I'm just going to hit you with the monkey and dive into it. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a new show. |
| 0:09.0 | We need to talk about this big Linus Tech Tips update, especially because you know I think the most oxygen and the biggest spotlights always give in to the big juicy story, the accusations. |
| 0:21.5 | And unfortunately a lot of the time you don't see the reporting later down the road of, you know, was there anything there? What are the updates? You know, in the YouTube world, this is massive news because Linus Tech Tips just released the results of a months long investigation that found that they didn't have a toxic work environment nor allowed sexual harassment. |
| 0:36.0 | Also if you're unfamiliar, this is just not fresh in your brain, let's revisit. |
| 0:39.0 | So back in August of last year, the LTT channel and the company above it LNG were accused by |
| 0:43.7 | former employee Madison soup of a ton of wrongdoings. But easily the main ones |
| 0:47.1 | were that there was sexual harassment that went unaddressed and ignored and |
| 0:49.9 | that the company set her up for failure with poor communication and shifting expectations that were never relayed. |
| 0:54.3 | With that then causing a massive backlash against Linus and the company, the company promising that an independent investigation would be carried out. |
| 1:00.4 | And since then, they've been almost completely silent on the issue with the company also having to juggle other issues that we've discussed on the show in the meantime. |
| 1:06.0 | But now the big news is that they've released the general findings of the investigation via a tweet and if true they look very good for LNG and LTT. |
| 1:13.0 | So we learned that the entire thing was conducted by Roper-Grayo, |
| 1:15.7 | which is a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law |
| 1:18.8 | with them conducting a third-party investigation. |
| 1:20.7 | And that the main takeaway with this is that in summary as confirmed by the |
| 1:23.4 | investigation the allegations made against the team were largely unfounded misleading and |
| 1:27.6 | unfair statement also going down more specific allegations made by |
| 1:30.5 | Madison such as claims of bullying and harassment not being substantiated |
| 1:34.2 | and allegations that sexual harassment were ignored or not addressed were false |
| 1:37.4 | any concerns that were raised were investigated furthermore from reviewing our |
| 1:40.6 | history the investigator is confident that if any other concerns had been raised, we would have investigated them. |
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