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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The more I think about it, the more I'm getting worried for JB over the retaliation claim, and like people here have been saying forever, I get that's why BL's lawyers want to focus on it. I genuinely think most of the negative press toward Blake was organic, and I'm not pro-BL, but I think it's worrisome if they can find even a handful of posts disparaging her that they can trace back to JB.

I don't think he hired Nathan because she spoke up against sexual harassment, I think he hired Nathan because Blake was running to the press first (see that Daily Mail article in early August about him being a chaunivist) and he needed to protect himself and the company. But I just don't see a jury making a distinction between "retaliating" against SH and "retaliating" to protect himself. Her lawyers are going to get them to ask: Did JB launch any counterattack on her for whatever reason? I don't think the jury is going to believe her on the SH claims, but I think BL's lawyers are going to try their hardest to make the argument that retaliation is their focus, SH is subjective and so don't focus on that, etc. [/quote]

I think Baldoni is going to have a hard time explaining why he was paying Wallace $90K to just keep track of socials and not affirmatively add commentary to the conversations when keeping track of socials is specifically work that his other 2 PR firms were getting paid $30K/month and $15K/month to do as per their written contracts.  [/quote]

Unless Wallace was promoting positive commentary about Justin.  There is actually a fair amount he could be doing that wouldn’t involve Lively at all.  Same for all the pr folks, positive stories about their clients is their business.[/quote]

I thought his affidavit said he wasn't doing that either.  Only tracking. [/quote]

His affidavit is confusing to me because he also says he was the only person from Street Relations who worked on the Wayfarer account, but there are emails where he references his team and also messages where Nathan or Abel refer to "Jed and his team."

I am also wondering what he means by tracking because both Jonesworks and TAG were also monitoring/tracking social media for Justin and the movie -- this was part of their contract with Wayfarer. And Wallace got paid quite a bit. It would be odd to me if he was being paid that much just do duplicate work already being done by two other agencies.

I suspect that the monitoring Wallace was doing was targeted on Lively, not Justin. If he didn't actually seed any negative content about Lively, I do think he was doing like a granular tracking of how sentiment about Lively was tracking on places like Reddit and comment sections on tabloids, and was providing info about this to TAG and Wayfarer. This could still be problematic for Wayfarer because why would they need such detailed sentiment analysis on Lively? If she can show that, for instance, Melissa Nathan was planting negative stories about Blake in tabloids, and then Wallace was closely tracking how those stories were playing online and providing feedback about which narratives were gaining traction and which were not, thus enabling Nathan to better target the kinds of negative content people were responding to and promote that narrative in other ways, that would still be a retaliation campaign. Even if Wallace was only doing "monitoring" and reporting back.[/quote]

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