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A New Yorker spokesperson also told Vice that Toobin has been “suspended while we investigate the matter” (which, because it is the New Yorker, will hopefully involve the famed publication’s HR department reviewing the footage while wearing a little monocle). I thought I had muted the Zoom video,” he said in what is perhaps the most boomer summation of video-conferencing technology ever uttered. I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. In a statement to Vice about the initial allegations, Toobin claimed showing his penis to his coworkers was in error: “I believed I was not visible on Zoom. More importantly, two sources claimed Toobin had been seen masturbating on the call. A few hours later, however, they updated to include some juicy new details: first, that the call had been an election simulation featuring some of the New Yorker’s most prominent names, including Masha Gessen and Jane Mayer. Initially, the article reported simply that Toobin exposed himself during a Zoom call with the staff of the New Yorker and WNYC Radio. ĭetails about what was referred to by Vice as the “Zoom Dick Incident” are few, but continue to emerge. Famed legal analyst, The Run of His Life author, and New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin is proof of this, per reporting from Vice.

But if nothing else, the pandemic is testament to the indefatigability of the human spirit, and when there is a will, there is a way. He then dropped off the call and returned moments later, without acknowledging what the others had just seen.Social distancing protocols have made actions such as exposing oneself to horrified observers more difficult, if not impossible. Two people familiar with the New Yorker call said it was clear that Toobin was touching himself. Toobin waited until a break in the call, then allegedly exposed himself to masturbate while engaging with a separate call, witnesses told Vice and The New York Times. Staff from the New Yorker and WNYC radio were on the call with him to plan for election coverage at the time. The author, CNN legal analyst and New Yorker writer exposed himself during what he thought was a break in a virtual meeting last week, as Vice News first reported. presidential election after he was reportedly caught masturbating on a Zoom call with his colleagues. Veteran journalist Jeffrey Toobin has been pulled off covering the U.S.