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posted on 10/20/2020 9:24 PM
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The writer Jeffrey Toobin of The New Yorker magazine and commentator on American television caused a stir by masturbating during a meeting on the Zoom app. It is not the first case of videoconference nudity, but perhaps the most shocking.
Toobin, 60, apologized for the incident Monday after being suspended by The New Yorker for displaying his sex organ during a video conference with colleagues about the November 3 US presidential election.
Toobin, a CNN legal analyst, was caught masturbating, according to unidentified sources present in the call quoted by Vice News, which was the first vehicle to report the episode, which occurred last week.
The case came during a mock election between employees of The New Yorker and public radio WNYC, in which participants played roles such as that of President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden.
During a hiatus, Toobin appeared to be on a second call from Zoom, but he soon appeared in front of the camera touching his penis, according to Vice.
“I made a stupid and embarrassing mistake, thinking I was off-camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and colleagues,” Toobin said in a statement sent to Vice.
“I thought I was not visible on Zoom. I thought no one on Zoom’s call could see me. I thought I had closed the video,” he added.
The incident is the latest example of Zoom users inadvertently showing more than they realize during business meetings, amid the skyrocketing number of video conferences due to the pandemic.
Last month, an Argentine deputy was suspended for touching his wife’s chest during a parliamentary session conducted by videoconference.
On the screen installed in the Argentine Congress for the Zoom sessions, a woman could be seen approaching Deputy Juan Emilio Ameri, 47, sitting on his lap and being touched and kissed on the chest.
The session was interrupted and the president of the Chamber of Deputies announced the suspension of the parliamentarian for five days.
Ameri tried to apologize and justify herself for what happened: “Here, throughout the interior of Argentina, the connection is very bad. We were in the session, but the internet went down. My wife came out of the bathroom, I asked her how the prostheses were.” ) and gave her a kiss, because ten days ago she had a breast implant operation “.
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Also in September, a Brazilian businessman accidentally appeared naked during a video conference with President Jair Bolsonaro.
The man, who soon explained that he forgot to turn off the camera, appeared bare-chested in an image on the video conference screen along with 20 other people attending the meeting.
The Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, said, laughing: “There is a boy there, doing insulation at home and everything, beauty. The boy was warming up with the conversation, then he went to take a cold shower.”
“We saw it, sadly,” Bolsonaro laughed.
In June, Irish lawmaker Luke Flanagan took part in a European Parliament videoconference from his bedroom, shirtless but no pants, wearing only underwear.
“He had just come back from a race … he was wearing a shirt two minutes earlier [da reunião]. I decided to wear a shirt to look more respectable. It didn’t work out very well! “She wrote on Twitter.” I hope people liked my legs! ”He joked.
Zoom’s video conferences have also been the subject of intentional and more sinister nudity this year. The hackers disrupted school classes or court hearings to display pornography, forcing the tech maker to improve the app’s security.
Toobin is the author of several books, including “True Crimes and Misdeeds: The Donald Trump Investigation,” on former FBI Director Robert Mueller’s investigation into allegations that Russia was involved in the president’s 2016 campaign.
CNN said Toobin will take a leave of absence “while facing a personal problem.”
