Former BuzzFeed employee Tim “Treadstone” Gionet, a.k.a. @BakedAlaska, accused BuzzFeed employees of not only treating him “unfairly” when he “came out as a Trump supporter,” but that some at the company “openly wish someone will assassinate” President Trump:
https://twitter.com/bakedalaska/status/859939136894939137
His tweet came in response to BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith’s interview with Tucker Carlson where he said “people are very respectable to the conservatives on our staff”:
Ben Smith, Buzzfeed Editor-in-Chief: "I think people are very respectful of the conservatives on our staff." #Tucker pic.twitter.com/p6sJJJ8z3o
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 4, 2017
.@BuzzFeedBen: People do not get into reporting because they are political activists they are interested in reporting #Tucker @FoxNews
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 4, 2017
Gionet sent screenshots allegedly of BuzzFeed’s internal Slack channel to reporter Cassandra Fairbanks to back up his accusation:
EXPOSED: BuzzFeed employees get caught hoping the President gets assassinated. https://t.co/oQUubJIzCp pic.twitter.com/HhRUGmZMq3
— MAGA MVMT (@MAGAmvmt) May 4, 2017
According to Fairbanks, 3 of the BuzzFeed staffers locked their accounts after the news broke:
All three @BuzzFeed employees implicated in the leak have locked their accounts @Cernovich @bakedalaska https://t.co/DlyT9YXwd0 pic.twitter.com/1Iez40mjj6
— Cassandra Fairbanks ?✌️ (@CassandraRules) May 4, 2017
Former BuzzFeed reporter Andrew Kaczynski weighed in saying that BuzzFeed Video is separate from BuzzFeed News and “I also don’t doubt that the spirit animal could have happened”:
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/860147756073201664
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/860148080406147074
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/860148948958404610
Over to you, Ben Smith:
https://twitter.com/NolteNC/status/860138227403018240
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