Call of Duty League caster Momo fired after investigation of misconduct Call of Duty LeagueProminent Call of Duty caster Philip \u2018Momo\u2019 Whitfield has confirmed that he has been released from employment with Activision Blizzard, following an investigation into messages he sent to female members of the gaming community. On July 4, Whitfield stated that his contract as a caster and host for the Call of Duty League had been terminated, effective on June 30. Various social media posts in the days prior had alleged that the cause of his termination was due to complaints made confidentially to Activision about Whitfield\u2019s conduct. \u201cThis decision follows what was described to me as an internal investigation after old messages that I\u2019d sent to female members of the gaming community had been passed to my employer,\u201d Whitfield said. \u201cFor confidentiality reasons, the detail of these messages and the recipients were not disclosed, which I fully respect. I cannot therefore respond to the specific allegations and their context.\u201d According to Momo, the content of the messages \u201cmade the recipients feel uncomfortable.\u201d He explained that he was \u2018trying his luck\u2019 \u201cwith women who hadn\u2019t invited my attention, and I was being forward when I shouldn\u2019t have been.\u201d \u201cI did not believe at the time that I was making the recipients uncomfortable. Had I known this I would not have continued conversing in this way.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/Momo\/status\/1279439185062047746 Concluding his statement, Momo said \u201cthe person I was back then is not the person I am now. I take full ownership for my misjudgments and would stress how sorry I am for my conduct.\u201d [jwplayer qYU9URvL] \u201cI\u2019m sorry for my immaturity, I\u2019m sorry for any explicit content or graphic language I used, I\u2019m sorry for any tasteless humour, and I\u2019m sorry to anybody who I\u2019ve caused offense to or who has suffered in any way as a result of my actions. I hope they read this message and believe these words.\u201d Momo was formerly a professional Call of Duty player before he moved into casting, and was one of the main voices on CWL broadcasts, and later CDL, when the inaugural season of the franchised league began in late 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Call of Duty League caster Momo fired after investigation of misconduct Call of Duty LeagueProminent Call of Duty caster Philip \u2018Momo\u2019 Whitfield has confirmed that he has been released from employment with Activision Blizzard, following an investigation into messages he sent to female members of the gaming community. On July 4, Whitfield stated that his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}