Thread by @JamesOKeefeIII

UPDATE: A source from inside @IBM and @RedHat has just given us INTERNAL SLACK MESSAGES that reveal employee response to our reporting. According to one IBM / Ret Hat emplyee @jaywryan, “The truth is, it’s his fault (James O'Keefe's) that we are even having this conversation. We all made zero stink about this until the 'super mega awesome leaked IBM exec video'.“ Clearly, this is striking a nerve both inside and outside the tech giant… THREAD

Jay Ryan @jaywryan is a senior account solution architect based in Ohio. He wrote “The truth is it’s his fault that we are even having this conversation. We all made 0 stink about this until the super mega awesome LEakeD ibM eXeC video”

@jaywryan Krys Gollihue @phenomeneon is a technical marketing content writer with Red Hat based in North Carolina. Here’s what they had to say.

@jaywryan @phenomeneon Matthew Solyst is a mystery, with no online footprint. He’s a Senior IT Support Engineer at Red Hat based in North Carolina. He said “we should absolutely not get worked up about anything he posts until and unless it is corroborated in full by multiple independent sources.”

@jaywryan @phenomeneon Finally, we found a post from “gentleman cat herder” Brendon Conoboy @bconoboy who is a LINUX project lead. He wrote, “I can only take James O’Keefe’s coverage of something from 2 years ago as an indication that IBM and Red Hat were doing the right things in 2021.”