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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 13
eBay Harassment Scandal Becomes New 2019 Documentary as Couple Still Seeks Justice
Updated
Updated · The New York Times · Jul 13

eBay Harassment Scandal Becomes New 2019 Documentary as Couple Still Seeks Justice

1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 13

Summary

  • A new documentary revisits the 2019 campaign in which eBay employees terrorized Ina and David Steiner, the Massachusetts couple behind seller-news site EcommerceBytes.
  • eBay executives viewed the site as a threat because it published criticism and inconvenient facts, including that the chief executive earned 152 times the average worker’s pay.
  • James Baugh, then eBay’s head of security, led a team that sent disturbing items, harassed the Steiners online and stalked them at home.
  • The film frames the episode as a broader warning about how a company founded in 1995 on the idea that “people are basically good” instead amplified employees’ worst impulses.

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eBay Scandal: Executives Terrorized Couple, Subject of New Documentary

Insights

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With their civil trial reopened, what new evidence will emerge against eBay's former CEO in the terror campaign?
As eBay reports record profits, has the corporate culture that led to a terror campaign actually been reformed?

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The New York Times6h ago
eBay Scandal: Executives Terrorized Couple, Subject of New Documentary