Decided to check back on things after a coming across a comment saying a month had already gone by. Completely unsurprisingly everything was swept under the rug. The promise to "release findings" seems now nothing but a tactic to shut up anyone calling them out and now they just act like nothing happened.
Who woulda thunk?.
On the quality issues they still manage to fuck up even with all the "new processes" Won't surprise me if sooner rather than later they just go back to the regular shitshow.
about as expected from a petite-bourgeois owner of a capitalist corporation. honestly, i do not care that much about gamers nexus allegations (except for that waterblock part) but Madison's and other employee allegations made me feel gross watching LTT.
keep in mind the comeback video didn't even have a single mention of employees. i know they are 'investigating' and that the 'investigation' will find nothing wrong but atleast say that.
Yeah it's not the same watching after hearing what Madison had to say. I just can't. Although it's a bit early to say that they didn't do an investigation, that takes a lot of time to do right. Plus there's only so much they're going to tell the public out of concern for their own public image and to a lesser extent but will be claimed to be the primary reason, to protect Madison and other victims from further abuse.
Not defending Linus here, but expecting a press release about the investigation this soon is pretty ambitious. If they did I'd actually believe them less. Here's hoping the employees of LMG land on their feet.
The article you posted is from Aug 17th, and promises to release a "more complete statement", not any particular "findings" you might be expecting
That came in the form of another video Aug 26th, where they go into the changes in production processes, including changes to fact checking procedures.
Crucially they acknowledge that it wouldn't be realistic for them to simply not make any mistakes moving forward, but they detailed some procedures to mitigate the chance of it including collecting community feedback from interested subject matter experts in advance of publication. Sounded pretty reasonable to me, and the case you mentioned where they subsequently got something wrong doesn't really seem like a significant error, or one they haven't adequately addressed/corrected.
I'm not sure what else you expected? In a scenario where they have addressed the concerns to your satisfaction, what would they have done differently?
At the final paragraph:
Linus Media Group CEO Terren Tong also responded via email, saying he was “shocked at the allegations and the company described” in Reeve’s posts. He went on to note that “as part of this process, beyond an internal review we will also be hiring an outside investigator to look into the allegations and will commit to publish the findings and implementing any corrective actions that may arise because of this.”
Clearly say commitment to publish.
My mistake, your original quote was "release findings" which isn't a term in the article.
From my experience with external audits, they take awhile, but I agree they should post an update about that.
