HBO boss Casey Bloys admits using fake accounts to hit back at critics

The chief executive and chairman of HBO has admitted to tasking staff with creating a fake Twitter account to attack TV critics.

It comes after Rolling Stone reported that Casey Bloys created a "secret army" to hit back at negative coverage.

Mr Bloys apologised to the TV critics who were targeted at a press event.

He said it was done during a period where he was "working from home and doing an unhealthy amount of scrolling through Twitter".