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eBay will pay $3 million over bizarre cyberstalking campaign
eBay is paying the price.
In 2019, the employees came up with a plan to target Ina and David Steiner, a couple who ran an e-commerce newsletter that covered eBay with a critical lens. In addition to sending the pair online threats, the employees visited the couple’s home to conduct surveillance and sent them grotesque items, including a bloody pig mask, a funeral wreath, live insects, and a book about getting through the death of a spouse. The Steiners sued eBay and former CEO Devin Wenig in 2021 over claims the company engaged in a campaign to “intimidate, threaten to kill, torture, terrorize, stalk and silence them.” A judge ruled last December that the couple’s case can proceed.
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