- Today we're talking about how Logan Paul
and KSI tricked you fools,
how Shein's making sweatshop labor cool by paying some
of your favorite influencers to publish propaganda,
the Supreme Court actually helped save democracy today,
and we've got a criminal cop
who blackmailed hacking victims.
We're gonna talk about all that and so much more
on today's brand new Philip DeFranco Show,
your daily dive into the news.
So you hit that like button and let's just jump into it.
Starting with Shein is a good company
that's never done anything wrong
and its workers are the happiest people on the planet.
Rather that is what a group of influencers who went
to the Shein factory in China basically said
and the internet's not buying it
because, in case you were unaware, which makes sense,
there's a lot going on, Shein is known
as one of the worst fast fashion companies in the world
with investigations finding that employees work up
to 18 hour days in often unsafe conditions
making as little as $20 a day.
And then sometimes those employees working
in those ludicrous conditions get fined
if they make a mistake.
Shein's also been criticized
for its negative environmental impacts
like promoting wasteful consumption
and leaving a high carbon dioxide trail,
though that's kind of small potatoes compared
to allegations of forced labor practices.
But then you have this group of influencers
who visited Shein's factory chalking a lot
of that up to just misinformation and rumors.
They're claiming that people here
in the US are just getting the wrong story
and everything they saw at Shein's just totally hunky dory.
- [Destene] Upon interviewing the workers, a lot of them
were really confused and taken back
with the child labor questions
and the lead in the clothing questions
because they basically said our kids wanna be
on social media just like y'all.
They're not working in factories.
When I asked them questions like,
"What does your work week look like?
How many hours do you work?
What's your commute,"
most of them work, like, eight to six and their commute
is, like, 10 to 15 minutes, just like normal.
- [Dani] I was able to interview a woman that worked
in the fabric cutting department and, you guys know me,
she's an investigative journalist,
so I asked her all of our questions
and she answered them honestly and authentically.
She was very surprised at all of the rumors
that had been spread in the US.
- With that last influencer who goes
by DaniDMC closing that video,
which has since been deleted, by saying--
- [Dani] I think my biggest takeaway from this trip
is to be an independent thinker,
get the facts, and see it with your own two eyes.
There's a narrative fed to us in the US
and I'm one that always likes to be open-minded
and seek the truth, so I'm grateful for that about myself.
- Right, and with all that,
you had a lot of people online going,
"How the hell are we supposed to believe anything
from this influencer trip," which, by the way,
was led by Shein, which had the pretty obvious intent
or hope that you'd be posting glowing reviews.
How is that an example of free thinking?
With many people calling the trip itself
and the content that came out of it propaganda.
And even though the influencers reportedly claimed
they were not paid to attend the trip
or post about what they saw, you have people saying,
"Well the trip itself is the compensation."
Also regarding what the influencers saw,
you had outlets like Elle noting, you know,
there are thousands of Shein factories in China
and they also use third party manufacturers.
So the conditions the influencers saw may not actually
reflect company-wide quality and practices.
We saw tons of people calling out these influencers
on social media, writing,
"Feigning ignorance about this company is not a good look.
There's no way that you didn't know
that this company is bad.
You'd have to be living under a rock.
Your job is literally fashion.
You're not fooling anyone except the young women
you influence who are now reading your comments.
It's incredibly irresponsible."
As well as, "Please do better.
A brand deal for you does not make this world any better
of a place to live in for the rest of the world.
Selfishness is the richest excuse."
We also saw a different angle to this story
with outlets like Mashable.
Right and that's 'cause they actually called out Shein
for turning to marginalized influencers for this trip.
Reportedly most of the influencers on the trip
being people of color, some being plus-sized,
with Mashable adding that,
"Non-white creators are historically
offered fewer opportunities than white creators
and make less money when they do get opportunities.
That makes an offer from a brand like Shein
a very exciting prospect and much harder to turn down."
And actually with that, DaniDMC, who has kinda become
this main character of the controversy,
she posted a now deleted video where she said that,
as a plus-sized creator, she does have fewer opportunities
and this was the first company to take her on a brand trip,
saying she is often underpaid,
but Shein didn't underpay her,
notably explaining all this when she announced
she signed a deal with Shein to help them
debunk rumors about the brand.
So yesterday she posted a video on Instagram talking
about how this trip came to be and then saying--
- The first part I can definitely take accountability for
is I should have done more research.
And I think content creators in general,
we don't do enough research
and I think especially plus size content creators,
we're just so happy to be included and, you know,
see our size and be able to wear their stuff
that it just, it gets, you know,
it can cause issues because you're not doing
enough brand research.
And that's definitely where I can take accountability.
I should have done more research.
- You also had Shein responding to the backlash,
showing NBC news that it, quote,
"Is committed to transparency."
But yeah, with all of that, what are your thoughts?
Let me know in those comments down below.
And then I've got a d-bag of the day for you.
When you get hacked online, if you go to the police,
you assume, "Hey they're gonna help me, not hack me again."
But for a number of women in Louisville, Kentucky,
they say that's exactly what happened
with a lawsuit alleging that Brian Wilson,
a former cop there, used police department resources
to harass, hack, stalk, and extort
around 20 women for years.
Right, so he had allegedly used the police database
to find hacking victims, then hack
into those online accounts himself and steal their nudes,
with him then texting the victims and using the photos
as blackmail to extort even more nudes from them.
And when this happened to the plaintiff in this suit,
who's a teacher, he allegedly threatened to send the photos
to her friends, family, principal, school board,
and even district superintendent.
And so she immediately contacted the Sex Crime Unit
for the same police department
Wilson allegedly hacked her from,
though, of course, she didn't know it was him at the time.
But despite calling over 10 times, she never got a response.
And Wilson actually ended up sending photos
to one of her friends, with the whole thing
emotionally devastating her and even leading her
to contemplate taking her own life.
With this, pretty soon the FBI got on his case.
On top of everything else here, they found dozens
of pictures of him exposing his penis while on duty
and often it in uniform.
And so now he's currently serving a 30-month sentence
in federal prison after pleading guilty
both to stalking women and throwing slushies
at people from unmarked police cars.
Which I will say, no wonder so many people don't feel safe.
30 months for a cop exploiting his position,
terrorizing victims who were already victims?
And then people just won't stop throwing stuff
at celebrities.
That's what tons of people were saying this morning
when videos were going viral of Logan Paul
and KSI getting pelted by supposed fans
with their own drink.
(crowd screams)
(KSI and Logan laughing)
Y'all, here's the thing. It was fake.
Though to clarify, not fake in, like,
the the value of a Logan Paul NFT,
but rather the value of Logan Paul in the WWE.
It happened, it was entertaining to watch,
but it was pre-planned.
- Throw your empty, empty bottle at us!
- [Logan And KSI] Not yet!
- [KSI] We need to make it look
like you guys hate us, all right?
Drink PRIME! (crowd yelling)
- With that clip coming from Oslo
after they went to Copenhagen.
And notably they just so happened to get pelted right
as he's shouting, "Drink PRIME."
- Drink PRIME! (crowd and Logan yelling)
- And so the few people that have noticed this
as of recording, there have been kind of
two different reactions.
One being, ah, these marketing geniuses.
Where so many people and organizations
were sharing that video,
it's gotten so many millions of views, so much free promo.
But on the other hand, you had some saying
this further normalizes throwing shit at celebrities,
which unfortunately has been a niche vertical of news
that has happened over and over.
So I guess really the only question is
which camp do you land in here?
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And then--
- [Trump] I think we can probably right?
- [Staffer] I don't know, we'll have to see.
Yeah, we'll have to try
to figure out-- - Yeah, declassify.
See as president I could have declassified,
but now I can't, you know.
But this is less. - Yeah, now we have a problem.
- [Trump] Isn't that interesting?
- My man Trump knew he was being recorded
and was like, "Man, the crimes I'm crimin',
that I know that are a crime, whoo, wild!"
Right, before we had the transcript
regarding Trump mishandling classified documents,
with that evidence being recorded when he did an interview
in July of 2021 with an author for an upcoming book
while two staffers were present.
And to expand on that clip from the now released audio,
you had Trump saying he found a senior military official's
plan of attack for a foreign country,
with it being widely acknowledged that he's talking
about former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
General Mark Milley and Iran.
Right, 'cause it had previously been reported
that Milley had stopped Trump from striking Iran
in the last few days of his presidency.
And this released audio is especially damning for Trump.
Because in addition to the clip I already played
being clear evidence that contradicts
Trump's previous argument that he had declassified
all the documents that he took when he left the White House,
is that another of Trump's claims is that,
"Hey, I didn't actually even show a document at all."
Or when Brett Baier interviewed and devastated Donald Trump,
where among other things, he read the part
of the indictment back to Trump
and asked why he had the Iran document
if he knew he couldn't declassify it, Trump responded--
- There was no document.
That was a massive amount of papers and everything else
talking about Iran and other things
and it may have been held up or may not,
but that was not a document.
I didn't have a document, per se.
There was nothing to declassify.
These were newspaper stories, magazine stories,
and articles.
- But in the audio, which is basically
an extended version of exactly what was included
in the transcript, it really makes it seem like Trump
is talking about a specific document
and one that is classified.
And what's more, it also confirms that Trump was,
in fact, talking about Milley in the reports
that he had prevented Trump from striking Iran,
with this other snippet of the recording starting out
with a staffer seemingly referring to reports
that top generals, including Milley, were worried Trump
would attempt a coup after the 2020 election,
something Trump has also publicly attacked Milley for.
And the staffer appearing to claim
that it was actually Trump administration officials
that had tried to launch a coup against Trump
before he even took office, with Trump responding--
- [Trump] Well with Milley, let me see that,
I'll show you an example.
He said that I wanted to attack Iran.
Isn't it amazing?
I have a big pile of papers. This thing just came up.
Look, this was him.
They presented me this, this is off the record,
but they presented me this.
This was him, this was the Defense Department and him.
- [Staffer] Wow.
- [Trump] We looked at him, this was him.
This wasn't done by me, this was him.
All sorts of stuff. It's pages long.
Wait a minute, let's see here.
(Staffers laugh)
I just found, isn't that amazing?
This totally wins my case, you know, except it is,
like, highly confidential, secret,
(Staffers laugh) this is secret information.
But look, look at this.
- Right, so when you hear everything,
it makes absolutely no sense to say that Trump
was talking about newspapers and magazines.
Well, despite how absolutely damning this appears,
his spokesperson actually claimed the recording, quote,
"Provides context proving, once again,
that President Trump did nothing wrong at all,"
and instead just going on to focus on a back and forth
that happened where they were talking
about Clinton and Anthony Wiener
without addressing the actual substance at all.
"The President is speaking rhetorically
and also quite humorously
about a very perverted individual, Anthony Wiener,
who was deep inside the corrupt Clinton campaign.
The media and the Trump haters, once again,
were all too willing to take the bait, falling
for another Democrat-DOJ hoax, hook, line, and sinker."
And then, y'all bitches is thirsty.
Also, when I say y'all,
I mean that in the royal sense, all humanity.
Also, to further clarify, I'm not talking
about those desperate Tinder messages, though,
maybe we need to talk about those too.
We'll save that for a different day
'cause today we gotta talk about how humanity
has pumped so much groundwater out of the earth
that we have literally changed the planet's tilt.
Right, in addition to things like rainfall, rivers,
and lakes, we get roughly half our drinking water
and a quarter of our irrigation water
from underground reservoirs called aquifers,
which are estimated to contain over a thousand times
more water than all the surface rivers
and lakes in the world.
But when we take it outta the ground,
we slowly shift the distribution of mass on earth.
And as reports have explained,
the whole thing is moving like a top.
So if you move enough mass from one place to another,
the planet will wobble as it spins.
And with that, there was actually a study that calculated
that between 1993 and 2010,
we removed a total of 2,150 gigatons of groundwater,
which to give you some context, and honestly it still fails,
that's enough water to fill 860 million
Olympic swimming pools and all
of that shifting the earth's tilt 31.5 inches eastward.
Plus, over the same 17 year time period, researchers found
that groundwater pumping caused a quarter inch
of global sea level rise.
And that's because rivers and other pathways
carry all the water into the world's oceans
after we consume it.
And that's one of the reasons why scientists say
that better managing our groundwater consumption
can actually help mitigate climate change.
And like with a lot of things here, you know,
it's connected in turn, stopping climate change,
can help mitigate groundwater depletion.
Because when you have fewer droughts
and more reliable rainfall,
it reduces our need to pump water from underground.
But one of the challenges here
is that aquifers take a long time to refill
and in many parts of the world
they've been sucking theirs dry for decades.
Like in California's Central Valley, for example,
where growers have been pumping more water
than can be naturally replenished for some 60 years now,
which forces the wells to drill deeper and deeper.
And so the main point of that story
is isn't that weird?
Just another way human activity's warping this planet.
And feel free to use this information
in your next conversation where there's a lull
and you're talking to some heathen
who doesn't watch the Philip DeFranco show.
And then the nine God-kings
that we call Supreme Court Justices woke up today
and were like, "Hey let's not single-handedly
upend American democracy."
And while it seems like, yeah, that should be the default,
that should be like, we shouldn't have to applaud for that.
But this specific and highly conservative Supreme Court,
nothing's guaranteed.
And this incredibly consequential and controversial case
did not have a unanimous ruling.
It was a six to three vote.
Right, 'cause the case in question
was called Moore V Harper
and we actually had a deep dive on it,
which I'll link to down below.
But to just give you a very top level rundown here,
this centers around Republican gerrymandering
in North Carolina, with North Carolina Republicans
taking the matter to the Supreme Court
after multiple congressional maps they drew up
were rejected because of gerrymandering.
But also this was not a typical gerrymandering case.
The Republicans argument rested entirely
on a totally untested fringe theory touted
by Trump and other far right extremists
in their effort to overturn the 2020 election.
It's called independent state legislature theory,
ISL theory.
The basis behind this theory is that the Constitution
gives state legislatures pretty much the exclusive power
to set election rules and congressional maps.
But not only is that authority singular,
nothing can stop them.
There could be no intervention
from state courts, governors, or voters.
I mean, we're talking about a case
where North Carolina Republicans literally argued
that legislatures could even violate
their own state constitutions,
which is why you had experts saying
that if the Supreme Court ruled in favor of this theory,
it would throw the democratic system into complete chaos,
giving state lawmakers unchecked power
to gerrymander and pass restrictive voting laws
without anything to stand in their way.
But luckily, today the high court rejected ISL theory.
Also as far as the three justices who dissented,
I'll give you six guesses as to who voted on it,
though I think you're gonna get two right out the gate,
'cause you got the dirty money sugar babies
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito
and they were joined by Neil Gorsuch,
who's actually their fellow brother
in failing to disclose financial ties to wealthy
and powerful people with business before the high court.
It's strange how that works.
And also expect more around the Supreme Court
because this is actually their last week
of their summer session.
And there's a handful of massively consequential cases
they'll be deciding on that are going
to impact tens of millions of Americans.
And that is where your daily dive
into the news is gonna end.
But more news you need to know,
I got you covered here or in those links down below.
And as always, my name's Philip DeFranco,
you've just been filled in, I love yo faces,
and I'll see you right back here tomorrow.