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New Yorker Fires Jeffrey Toobin After He Masturbated on a Zoom Call

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Longtime New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin was fired today, following an October VICE News report about his having masturbated on a video call between staff from the New Yorker and WNYC.

The news initially broke via a memo sent to staff at Condé Nast, which owns the New Yorker.

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Toobin subsequently wrote that he had been fired.

https://twitter.com/JeffreyToobin/status/1326644658991140866

This story will be updated with more information as we have it.