Earlier this week, New York magazine employees received an email from parentco Vox Media’s general counsel, Brian Leung, directing them to do everything in their power to refrain from contacting their colleague Olivia Nuzzi or discussing anything related to the revelations that lit up the internet last week—namely, you know, the fact that Nuzzi had been involved in a prurient, months-long, digital sexting and nude-photo-sharing relationship (or whatever) with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. By that point, Nuzzi had already been placed on leave due to her failure to disclose the relationship to her bosses, and gossip surrounding the demise of her relationship with ex-fiancé Ryan Lizza, the co-author of Politico Playbook, had already surpassed the election and government funding crisis as the watercooler topic du jour in Washington. Needless to say, the entreaty had little effect.