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eBay agreed to pay $56 million to a couple it terrorized in 2019 through a harassment campaign by company executives using fake social media accounts. The executives sent threats, live spiders, cockroaches, and a funeral wreath to intimidate them.
eBay agreed to pay $56 million to a couple it terrorized through a campaign orchestrated by company executives. The executives used fake social media accounts to send threats, mail live spiders and cockroaches, and send a funeral wreath to the couple's home. This wasn't a rogue employee—it was executives operating as a group.
The settlement is massive because the conduct was indefensible and the company's liability clear. Executives of a major corporation engaged in a coordinated harassment campaign against private citizens because the couple ran a competing newsletter. They used company resources and coordinated timing. The terrorizing nature of the campaign—live animals designed to frighten, a funeral wreath implying a death threat—makes it criminal conduct, not just a civil matter. eBay's settlement is essentially a penalty for allowing its leadership to conduct what amounts to organized harassment.
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