Boghossian is well known for his involvement in the "Grievance Studies Hoax", in which bogus papers (like a "dog park" study that claimed field researchers monitored the sexual habits of dogs in dog parks for 1000 hours) were ostensibly accepted for publication, Sokal-style.
The Hoaxers were incredibly deceptive in their presentation of what they accomplished. They wrote up lurid descriptions of insane papers, but didn't talk about how those papers were often rejected, and, when they were accepted, that acceptance was often in vanity journals. When they got papers accepted in real (albeit low-impact) journals, they weren't the ludicrous papers they'd written about. To boot, they faked field data, and coasted off the public's lack of understanding of the difference between refereeing papers and replicating them. One of their 7 accepted papers was published in "The Journal of Poetry Therapy", which isn't even an academic journal. Among their "in play" papers at the end of the hoax were several "reject-and-resubmits", which is journalese for "nice try but no", not journalese for "make a couple edits and we'll run it".
What makes me especially wary about all of this is that there's a playbook to follow, pivoting out of non-remunerative nth-tier academic positions (Boghossian was an assistant professor of philosophy at PSU) into social media stardom. We can probably come up with more than one example.