Lawsuit Claims Weber Shandwick Copywriter Helped Wage Harassment Campaign Against Podcast Host

Plaintiff seeks $20 million over 'violent and hateful content'

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Global PR firm Weber Shandwick and one of its senior copywriters have found themselves defendants in a heated legal battle between two controversial internet personalities and former podcast co-hosts.

The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in New York State Supreme Court by law firm The Landau Group, centers on a rift between two shock-jock podcast hosts: plaintiff George Ouzounian (who goes by the pseudonym “Maddox”) and former co-host Dax Herrera (who goes by “Dick Masterson”). After their podcast, The Biggest Problem in the Universe, ended in 2016, the lawsuit says, Herrera repeatedly made Ouzounian and his girlfriend a target of harassment via “violent and hateful content” that included “rape and death threats.”

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