(Chris Jackson/Getty Images)In early 2017, when the Wall Street Journal called attention to the fact that PewDiePie made Nazi jokes on his YouTube channel, fans of the most-subscribed YouTuber in the world went to war. But he made multiple, meme-laden YouTube videos about Alexander’s article and other reporting. When the media reports on PewDiePie, for his fans, it can feel like an attack on a friend. They don’t have an entire corporation team of editors.”He dismissed concerns that PewDiePie was radicalizing his following by sending them to YouTube videos created by racists. “You don’t want people to go from a PewDiePie video to Stormfront,” he said referring to a white-nationalist message board.

Source: Washington Post December 20, 2018 16:28 UTC