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Spitfire News @spitfirenews.com · 19/03/2025

One of the most persistent men’s rights activists who has harassed Sam for years is another mom who survived DV. I was struck by their similarities when interviewing them. But Chloe makes money on YouTube by bashing other women like her.

One of the most persistent men’s rights creators who has been making videos about Sam for more than a year is a woman named Chloe Sunderland, who has close to 2 million subscribers. According to her YouTube channel she’s currently engaged, but back when I interviewed her, she was a single mom like Sam. They both said they had left abusive ex-husbands and both of them were interrupted during our calls by their young kids.

Sunderland acknowledged to me that her videos drove the false perception that women were more abusive than men, and she told Sam in messages that she didn’t care that Sam’s ex-husband had been kicked out of the Coast Guard for abusing her. She sounded meek on the phone and brash on YouTube, where she can make money from bashing Sam.

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Spitfire News @spitfirenews.com · 25/02/2025

In December, the actress took legal action against her blockbuster co-star and director for sexual harassment and retaliation. Afterward, I noticed that Reddit comments involving key figures in her lawsuit were being downvoted en masse. spitfirenews.com/p/the-blake-...

Three screenshots of Reddit comments containing information about Jed Wallace that have been downvoted into negative values. The first says “Let the record reflect, that's Jed Avery Wallace of Street Relations, Inc, based in Northridge, CA. He somehow got his full name obscured even in the NY Times article, and tries to keep himself invisible; he has deleted his Linkedin, and I wouldn't be surprised if he creates a new shell corp now that this one is tainted.
He seems to have a team using Reddit for PR campaigns. Everyone say ‘Hi, Jed Wallace’! Edit: It's 8 am in Northridge and looks like they just woke up. This was at +10, and now it's suddenly negative. Let the downvotes flow!” It had -82 downvotes at the time of being screenshot. Another with -5 downvotes says “That is so weird, Jed Wallace also has connections to the Hollywood addiction industry. Jed was even involved in a lawsuit from Bam Margera for essentially designing/enforcing a treatment program without any professional knowledge about addiction lol.” Finally, one with -4 downvotes says “He appears to work closely with different rehab institutions and personalities. Bob Forrest, Heather Hayes to name a couple, Alo House Recovery Centers: https://
www.globenewswire.com/news-release/
2018/10/23/1625728/0/en/Alo-House-Recovery-
Centers-Named-Malibu-s-Best-Addiction-Treatment-Center-for-Second-Straight-Year.html
He was also a consulting producer on a reality show "Intervention: Codependent" https:// www.imdb.com/name/nm7955463/
Another Street Relations gig here: https:// file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/dbh/docs/
146466_POHUnveiling Release519.pdf”

Four screenshots of Reddit comments containing the link to a Business Insider piece about
Freedman that were downvoted into the negatives. One of them has -13 downvotes and says “testing” along with “Link to paywall-free article about Bryan Freedman and the SA allegations against him https://archive.ph/2022.11.17-021646/https://www.businessinsider.com/bryan-freedman-hollywood-
lawyer-sexual-assault-lawsuit-college-2022-11.” Another two comments just contain the link and have -8 and -10 downvotes. Another has -12 downvotes and says “Seriously, google Baldoni's lawyer. here's an article on it. Anybody who picks THAT guy to defend you, when this information is a Google away, is a scumbag as far as l'm concerned.”

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