Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy was suspended from Twitter after he posted screenshots of an email exchange between himself and the editor-in-chief of Insider, the publication that recently published sexual allegations against the media entrepreneur.
Portnoy posted an Instagram story on Tuesday announcing his suspension from Twitter and reposting the image that he says got him barred from the platform.
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“I got suspended from posting on Twitter for 12 hours for posting this,” Portnoy’s Instagram story reads, along with a screenshot of the email correspondence with Insider Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Carlson.
Portnoy’s email invited Carlson to join him on his podcast to openly discuss an article Insider published citing multiple accusers who say Portnoy had nonconsensual and violent sex with them. “We’ll make it as fair as possible and you can bring as many people as possible as you’d like,” Portnoy’s invitation to Carlson reads. “You can video/record the whole conversation and repost for your own purposes.”
Carlson responded to the invitation with a brief declination, saying that he wished for the story to “speak for itself.”
Nothing like “journalists” who write slanderous hit pieces, put it behind a paywall, use it as marketing to make money and then refuse to defend their work. There is clear evidence that refutes their “reporting” that @businessinsider refuses to acknowledge. pic.twitter.com/OZ5ZGJO84s
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) November 8, 2021
Insider published an article last week titled “‘I was literally screaming in pain’: Young women say they met Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy for sex and it turned violent and humiliating,” which detailed allegations from multiple accusers against Portnoy.
An accuser identified as Madison says she had a nonconsensual sexual experience with Portnoy that made her feel like “a human sex doll.”
“I never said anything. I was scared. He was just so mean,” she told Insider.
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“It was so painful, … I kept trying to get away and he was like, ‘Stop running away from me. Stop running away from me,'” she continued. Madison said Portnoy did not stop and continued to perform sexual acts nonconsensually on her.
Another accuser said she had a similar experience but did not wish for details to be published.
Portnoy responded to the accusations immediately after the article was published in a video address, fully denying the claims that the sexual encounter was nonconsensual.
“At no point was it not 100% consensual,” Portnoy said. “At no point did she ask me to stop. At no point did either of us think something unseemly happened.”
My Response To The Business Insider Hit Piece That Has Been 8 Months In The Making (Part 1/2) pic.twitter.com/gwrO07uIEE
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) November 4, 2021
