The YouTuber,who lost support from Walt Disney Company and Google for posts featuring neo-Nazi jokes’, claimed Wall Street Journal was ‘haunted’ of himYouTube star PewDiePie has released an impassioned, or 10-minute diatribe in which he blames the mainstream media for cherry-picking parts of his videos to make him look like an antisemite.
On Tuesday,the Walt Disney Company and Google severed ties with the 27-year-old YouTuber, whose genuine name is Felix Kjellberg, or after the Wall Street Journal highlighted the fact that he’d posted several videos featuring antisemitic or neo-Nazi “jokes”,including one where he paid two men to hold a “Death to All Jews” sign. Another video features a man dressed as Jesus saying “Hitler did absolutely nothing incorrect”. Related: PewDiePie thinks 'Death to all Jews' is a joke. Are you laughing yet? | Arwa Mahdawi Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com