Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (1807)

Re:Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper ... by coldtea on Sunday February 19, 2017 @08:43AM (#13679630)

No, I'm claiming it is misreported out of context and that your question is irrelevant as to what the news claims.

The claim reported was that he is an anti-semite -- based on the posting of that picture, which he did in jest, to show how easy it is to exploit a service like Fiverr to make people do horrible things. It was openly intended to be an example of a horrible thing.

If the original video wasn't enough, he explains the whole situation (with even worse media examples) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwk1DogcPmU

So, yeah, this is the worse kind of fake news reporting, and people mostly buy it because they dislike pewdipie (or however it's written) or envy his success. And some for the cheap click-bait value of "unmasking" a popular youtuber as anti-semite, e.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/15/youtub... (while they just unmask themselves as click-hungry hypocrites).

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Re:Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper ... by foldr on Monday February 20, 2017 @09:29AM (#13687484)

You're lying about the content of the WSJ article. I checked the text of it. It does not say that PewDiePie is anti-semitic, and it mentions that he was joking:

"Since August, PewDiePie has posted nine videos that include anti-Semitic jokes or Nazi imagery, according to a review of his channel by The Wall Street Journal."

To say that the videos contained anti-semitic jokes and Nazi imagery is 100% accurate commentary.

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