Leaked Video Shows Theranos Employees Shooting WSJ Reporter Who Exposed Them in Game

Many people play video games as a distraction from their unfortunate realities. Others go shooting at gun ranges to relieve their anger. When it seems as though life is spiraling out of control thanks to a specific person, some even resort to throwing darts at pictures of said person’s face.

When the employees of Theranos had their company exposed by Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou for misleading the public about their blood-testing technology, they decided to combine all three stress-relieving practices into one shocking activity.

A leaked video provided to Business Insider shows employees of the company founded by Elizabeth Holmes – once an admired Silicon Valley superstar who has now been reduced to an alleged crook – playing a video game in which they perform target practice on an image of Carreyrou. The game was reportedly played at the company’s manufacturing building shortly after the journalist outed it for claiming to possess tech that would revolutionize blood testing, when in fact it was not using the technology in the vast majority of its samplings.

After it was first reported Theranos employees had played a Space Invader-themed version of a game in which Carreyou’s face was the target, the investigative journalist tweeted a screenshot of the game along with the caption, “Space Invaders, Theranos Edition!”

Upon being contacted by Business Insider and viewing the video in which employees play the game with a jumbo projector, Carreyou said, “Wow, I got big screen treatment!”

Theranos has yet to release a statement regarding the game, which you can see in action above.

[<em>image via screengrab</em>]

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