Yesterday, we discovered a poll containing content of a highly offensive nature within the section of MTV.com for the “Rob & Big” show that resulted from an apparent intrusion of the polling tool on our site. MTV does not in any way condone the hateful remarks contained in this poll, and we offer our sincere apologies to those directly mentioned within it, the show’s fans, and visitors to MTV.com who were exposed to it.
The poll was immediately removed from MTV.com, and further investigation into additional potentially insensitive or inflammatory material has been conducted and concluded as of yesterday afternoon. Additionally, the MTV.com polling system is completely separate from our community platform, and there was no breach of MTV.com user profile data or our internal network security.
