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Joseph Cox

New from 404 Media: leaked Slacks and interviews show paranoia and fear inside Automattic over the WordPress chaos. CEO posting ultimatums to Slack and is intercepting signup emails from Blind, the anonymous platform for workers. Could unmask users 404media.co/automattic-buyout-

In July, before the latest WP Engine blowup, an Automattic employee wrote in Slack that they received a direct message from Mullenweg sending them an identification code for Blind, an anonymous workplace discussion platform, which was required to complete registration on the site. Blind requires employees to use their official workplace emails to sign up, as a way to authenticate that users actually work for the companies they are discussing. Mullenweg said on Slack that emails sent from Blind’s platform to employees’ email addresses were being forwarded to him. If employees wanted to log in or sign up for Blind, they'd need to ask Mullenweg for the two-factor identification code. The implication was that Automattic—and Mullenweg—could see who was trying to sign up for Blind, which is often a place where people anonymously vent or share criticism about their workplace. "We were unaware that Matt redirected sign-up emails until current Automattic lemployees contacted our support team,” a spokesperson for Blind told me, adding that they'd “never seen a CEO or executive try to limit their employees rom signing up for Blind by redirecting emails."|
17 October at 17:47 | Open on infosec.exchange
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WTL

@josephcox @GossiTheDog I'm increasingly convinced that Mullenweg needs to be punted from Wordpress.org and he can do what he wants in Automattic.

17 October at 17:55 | Open on mastodon.social
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@josephcox sincerely? I think he lost his mind.

17 October at 17:56 | Open on mastodon.social
Rich Felker

@josephcox How do these guys not understand that anyone who does anything like that is automattically the villain? 🤡 🤦

17 October at 18:01 | Open on hachyderm.io
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