The headline has been updated to reflect that Toobin was masturbating.” I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me.”īy Monday evening, the Vice story had this update on the bottom: “This piece has been updated with more detail about the call and WNYC. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers,” Toobin said in a statement Monday afternoon. “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. Toobin, 60, initially apologized and claimed he didn’t know the camera was on - but that was before details surfaced that he was masturbating and believed he had “switched to a second call that was the video-call equivalent of phone sex,” according to two people familiar with the incident who spoke to The New York Times. Ryan Simmons, a writer at SB Nation, started making mock versions of New Yorker cartoons, with characters in various scenarios saying “Jeffrey Toobin took his dick out on a Zoom call.”

The phrase “Zoom dick” was a Twitter trending topic most of the day, and tongue-in-cheek jokes flooded social media feeds, as if it were a laughing matter and not an instance of blatant sexual misconduct.

Toobin’s actions were first reported on Monday by Vice with the headline, “New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin After Zoom Dick Incident.” That “incident” was initially described as Toobin exposing his genitals by mistake, with no further description as to what he was doing. Jeffrey Toobin, a staff writer for The New Yorker and CNN's chief legal analyst, was suspended Monday after he was caught masturbating during a Zoom call with colleagues who were preparing for coverage of the 2020 election.

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