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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lively's list of stuff Baldoni boosted or planted. Interesting read.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304.949.1.pdf[/quote]

Don't have time to read, but I'm assuming this is the list of stuff she *thinks* he planted?[/quote]

Most of it is boosting, where someone sends a link, says to boost it, and someone flags to Jed. There's a couple that describe narratives they asked the press to write, and one text where Katie Case says "the comments are us lol." Then they mix it in with more benign stuff like Justin boosting things that make him look good, to pad it out. It's not a huge bombshell but it's not nothing and it's pretty clear they weren't flagging Jed to monitor stuff they already found. But enough to convince a jury, I don't know.
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I only skimmed but this seems like a pretty accurate summary. TBH, including all the stuff that is clearly just Justin and his team boosting positive stories about him or trying to sell a narrative that all was well on set (or just part of the creative process) makes it feel like it's no big deal. I wish they'd strip all that stuff out and just list the places where they have evidence of Abel, TAG, or Jed boosting negative stories about Blake, claiming credit for negative comments about her, etc. If it was just this, it would be easier to evaluate if it feels like enough to convince a jury.

I do think they are really hurting for all the Signal chat stuff here. It's tough when they have texts where someone identifies something online and says "we'll flag to Jed" and then... we don't know what happened. To me this is a big unanswered question. I don't buy what Jed is saying about "just monitoring" -- it doesn't make sense based on how his services were described internally by TAG or Wayfarer, and doesn't make sense with the text info we have about his work. But that doesn't mean he was doing what Lively was alleging.

It's frustrating to have that gap and not be able to assess for myself if whatever Jed did was okay or not. I also would love to know what he did just as a consumer of information online -- I feel like it might provide some insight that could help me be a smarter consumer. [/quote]

There is exactly one claim of a negative story about Blake being boosted prior to the complaint being filed.  As you said,  most of it is boosting positive stories about Justin or neutral stories.  Really weak sauce.[/quote]

That's definitely not true. Even disregarding the ones that I think are clearly Justin's team just fairly boosting positive content about him, I see multiple examples of what appears to be TAG or Jed, or Wayfarer suggesting to TAG or Jed, either a negative story about Blake to be seeded or boosted, or discussing planting comments on stories that criticize Blake. For instance they have messages where they credit Jed with comments that are critical of Blake or claim she was trying to steal the movie ("thank god for Jed"). There's also the text saying that they are "seeing a shift on social, due largely to Jed's and his team's efforts to shift the narrative towards shining a spotlight on Blake and Ryan." A link to a TikTok video of Blake patting Baldoni on the shoulder and a host of negative comments critical of Blake, with the request for the team to boost. Another text from Case saying she would share a Hollywood Reporter article with Jed's team and "at the very least ask for engagement in the comments" indicating they expected Jed to help fill the comments with anti-Blake and/or pro-Baldoni content. Another text between Case and Koslow with bullet points to be suggested to a journalist that include critiques of the way Blake promoted the movie.

There are more that's just a smattering based on a quick review. It's definitely not "one claim." There are a ton of discrete incidents that seem to show Abel, TAG, and Jed engaging in spreading negative content about Blake in August 2024.[/quote]

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