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A Different Kind of Letter from Activision Blizzard Executive Fran Townsend

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Activision Blizzard executive vice president for corporate affairs Fran Townsend who joined Activision in March sent out a different kind of e-mail that has some Blizzard employees fuming, according to Jason Schreier.

Blizzard President J. Allen Brack sent an e-mail to Blizzard staff recently, addressing allegations related to this week's lawsuit, calling them "extremely troubling".

In contrast, Fran Townsend, Homeland Security Advisor to George W. Bush from 2004-2007, who joined Activision Blizzard quite recently, sent out the following mail to employees, as revealed by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, calling the lawsuit “out of context”.

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