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Former Gizmodo Writer Changed Name To 'Slackbot,' Stayed Undetected For Months

Tom McKay successfully masqueraded as a "Slackbot" on Slack after leaving Gizmodo in 2022, going unnoticed by the site's management for several months. The Verge reports: If you're not glued to Slack for most of the day like I am, then you might not know that Slackbot is the friendly robot that liv...

Tom McKay successfully masqueraded as a "Slackbot" on Slack after leaving Gizmodo in 2022, going unnoticed by the site's management for several months. When it was his time to leave, McKay swapped out his existing profile picture for one that resembled an angrier version of Slackbot's actual icon. My colleague Victoria Song, who previously worked at Gizmodo, isn't all that surprised that this situation unfolded, and says, "As Tom's former coworker and a G/O Media survivor, this tracks."

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