A Fox Sports executive ran a secret social media account that attacked current and former colleagues, rivals, journalists, athletes and political figures, and posted crass, sexist and racist content.
Foxtel’s general manager of Fox Cricket Matthew Weiss used an X account, with the handle @RealRagingBull, to call Australian sports and media industry figures names including “toothless ice head”, “spastic” and “mediawhore”. The account also requested women start OnlyFans accounts and compared multiple Black women’s appearance to Chewbacca.
Crikey understands that it was an open secret among some Fox Sports staff that Weiss was behind the account.
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