Months after HBO Max long-established docuseries Era Hustle debuted on the carrier, a crew representing WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann says the streamer has changed some language in an episode that mapped the startup’s rise and spectacular demise.
In a observation sent to a staffer at The Verge earlier this week, defamation licensed knowledgeable Thomas A. Clare — who now represents the identified tequila enthusiast and reported aspiring immortal — announced that HBO Max had altered parts of a Era Hustle episode, titled “Cult of WeWork,” moreover its description on the HBO Max situation.
Previously, the show’s description talked about it mixed “stunning-crime capers with contemporary, sleek reviews of charismatic fakes” and “vivid imposters,” in step with a version of the positioning archived on Wayback Machine. Both the characterization of the sequence as “stunning crime” and the aforementioned description of its matters bear since been removed.
The carrier additionally changed language in the discontinue cards shown in the episode by specifying that while Neumann is being investigated, “no felony or regulatory prices were filed.” The episode additionally now entails language that WeWork is making ready to pass public. Whereas the language in the cards and the show’s and description were up to this point, a spokesperson for the HBO Max advised The Verge that no alterations had been made to the episode itself. Time limit earlier reported on the changes.
“HBO did the neatest thing here by promptly retracting these fake implications about Adam and the historical past of WeWork, and we applaud the community for taking these accountable steps,” Clare, Neumann’s licensed knowledgeable, talked about in a observation. “The media has over and over gotten the legend of Adam scandalous, and we hope these accountable steps by a respected outlet will abet keep an discontinue to the mischaracterizations of Adam’s successful characteristic in establishing a transformational alternate.”
An HBO Max spokesperson advised The Verge that Clare’s conflation of the changes with HBO — somewhat than HBO Max — became flawed. The firm had no additional commentary to half on Wednesday.
When requested by The Verge why the edits were announced virtually six months after the show’s premiere in April, a spokesperson for Neumann’s crew talked about that the changes were made “in the final few days.” Neumann retained his defamation counsel on January 14th of 2021, in step with the spokesperson.
