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タイムアウト's avatar

How much to not go on CBC and talk about your ex-employee Peter Duke trying to bribe me to takedown an article while representing Clearview AI in 2019?

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Charles Johnson's avatar

I didn’t have anything to do with that if it even happened.

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タイムアウト's avatar

Oh I'm sure that Hoan remembers given I heard his name and found the company's address months before the first NYT piece on the company.

"To the Clearview team and especially my cofounders Hoan and Richard, thank you so much for everything you do."

https://charlesjohnson.substack.com/p/why-i-cofounded-clearview

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Charles Johnson's avatar

Could well be. Hoan tried to steal my shares and we are in litigation. Anything you have on the early days of the company I would love to read about!

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タイムアウト's avatar

Maybe. Although I don't write very much anymore.

I hate that we both hate some of the same journalists for different reasons.

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Charles Johnson's avatar

I don’t hate anyone.

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タイムアウト's avatar

Fair enough. For me it's more like resentment with some of them.

I still want a ballpark if it was up to you out of curiosity, in 2019 Hoan offered $2,500 and app access (this is ironic because of something more complicated), to not permanently timeout the company.

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Kumar Thangudu's avatar

Efabless.com

Matches your vibes of industrialism.

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