• neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    32·
    11 days ago

    I wonder if this included all the people who donated money to get Andrew Callaghan out of immediate legal hot water with Bill Joiner after his Dear Kelly film. And that’s after he got in trouble in 2023 for sexual misconduct.

    I’ll admit that he and his team are doing fascinating work. It’s certainly some form of journalism and not purely entertainment. But it’s also clear that his organization has absolutely no adults in the room giving them strategic advice.

    Update: 404 Media just published an article on this: https://www.404media.co/channel-5-gave-hunter-biden-a-list-of-its-subscribers-emails-for-some-reason/

    Sept 9 2026 update: Andrew publicly posted a 4-minute video elaborating on what happened. “[I] didn’t know that I had an email list…” for a dude that’s been making YouTube content for years, has a highly-valued Patreon account, and now runs a VOD platform to claim that he’s never had an email list strains credulity.

    • architect@thelemmy.club
      62·
      12 days ago

      No I have no crack head crypto email in my inbox. I’m not sure if gofundme gives emails out like that.

      I like c5. The issue people bring up about him may or may not be true but his work is important so that’s that for me.

    • velma@sh.itjust.worksOP
      231·
      13 days ago

      I kinda thought he was going to run for office with how he’s been hitting the podcast circuit lately. I’m not surprised by him trying to grift with a crypto coin.

      It’s appalling that Channel 5 handed over their email list like that though.

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
        6·
        13 days ago

        There’s most definitely a very hard push to revamp Hunter Biden’s image and eventually push him as a politician. Why would the guy appear on every podcast under the sun if he doesn’t have political ambitions? It’s such an obvious OP.

  • Damage@feddit.it
    12·
    13 days ago

    GDPR violation, ah no wait it’s the land of the free-to-do-as-they-fucking-want(-as-long-as-they-got-money)

    whew, long name

    • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
      1·
      12 days ago

      Though she doubts her hosts moralities /she seems more at ease /in the land of doing-as-you-please / then outside in the cold

  • architect@thelemmy.club
    102·
    12 days ago

    Biden Fucker is using ai for social media posts and dumb shits argued with me here about how he’s eloquent because he’s a politician LOL he’s no politician he’s a fucking crack head and you got played by a crack head ya morons.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      61·
      12 days ago

      you got played by a crack head ya morons.

      Played how exactly? He’s a crackhead who admits he’s a crackhead. It’s not like we elected him president.

      And sadly, the bar for eloquence is much lower than it used to be. But he talks good for a crackhead.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    13 days ago

    This is pretty much exactly why I use Port87. Instant block for the Channel 5 label.

      • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        Yes and no. It essentially does the same thing, but makes it easier. You don’t have to set up anything beforehand. You use subaddressing by default, so you can give out an address like degen-channel5@port87.com, and it creates the “channel5” label for you when it gets an email addressed to it. It has per-label controls, so if you just don’t care about those emails, you can have them not send notifications and mark them as read.

        I think anonaddy lets you use ad-hoc addresses like that too, but you can’t set it to mark them as read and no notifications, since anonaddy isn’t the actual email service.