Hi everyone I hope you're all well so ragingly left-wing news outlet the daily beast is well
known for its leftist anti-conservative anti-trump political bias so it's not
surprising they have released a smear piece about self-professed milk toast fence sitter tim poole
a rather excellent independent youtube commentator and journalist now i am sure that a lot of you
already know who tim poole is i think there's at least a bit of overlap between my audience and his
so you will all know that he's not a conservative he believes in a
social safety net and while he voted for trump this time around he also voted for
obama a few elections ago he is a mixed bag of views and as a result i actually think he's
generally pretty fair and yet for some reason daily beast activist journalist robert silverman
took it upon himself to create a rambling personal baseless smear piece on tim the premise of which
is that tim poole pro gay marriage part korean tim poole has been founding the flames of the
far right and is responsible for radicalizing young men into misogyny and white supremacy
i'm sorry what in addition to making gargantuan seemingly impossible leaps to connect timpool
with the far right robert silverman has used a slew of anonymous sources that apparently come
from tim's early journalism days at vice and fusion like 10 years ago to complain about
his alleged behavior around the office and to say that they just didn't like him well
aside from the fact that citing even one anonymous source let alone basing an entire article on
anonymous sources instantly strips a piece of credibility why would anyone actually care about
tim's alleged behavior in workplaces like 10 years ago especially when tim has actually been
very upfront about the fact that he didn't get on with some of his colleagues advice and fusion
but look i'm getting ahead of myself here the important thing to ascertain is why silverman
wrote this piece in the first place i mean seems a little bit out of the blue tim hasn't
been involved in any kind of overt controversy of late and as far as i know he didn't you know
insult silverman's mother or anything so why this sudden faux deep dive smear piece well
it's yet another example of legacy media trying to discredit and ultimately
de-platform independent content creators and journalists who don't toe the leftist line
they do this for two reasons one legacy media is threatened and two they are jealous particularly
of those independent content creators who like tim have very large platforms and are dare i say it
effective at influencing people's opinions now we have seen this several times over the past few
years one very famous example is when former vox employee carlos matzah launched a campaign which
succeeded in getting stephen crowder's youtube channel demonetized carlos has blocked me on
twitter for some reason probably because i made a youtube video criticizing him at the time but what
we can see in incognito mode is that his twitter bio says he is a marxist pig liberal fascist queer
scum he him youtube prophets of hate speech it also used to include the phrase tucker carlson
is a white supremacist so that should give you an idea of um him why are people with their pronouns
in their bios always infallibly absolute jerks another example is when former buzzfeed journalist
mark de stefano who last year was fired from the financial times in london for listening in on a
rival outlet zoom call in which they were laying off staff petitioned youtube and succeeded as well
to get comedian count dankula's youtube account demonetised because well i'm actually still not
sure i think ultimately it was because dankula has a large following and isn't a lefty or politically
correct therefore in the eyes of little lefty activist stefano dankiller posed a threat and
the biggest example of this is youtube titan pewdiepie who has been subjected to fairly
regular attacks by online left-wing outlets trying to damage his 110 million subscriber channel on
the grounds that he is apparently an early 20th century german nationalist even though pewdiepie's
content largely consists of him laughing at memes do we have time for bonus meme yes we do fantastic
leftist activists disguised as journalists know that if you can't actually get someone
banned off youtube getting the channel demonetized is just about as good
since um hitting someone in the wallet eventually inhibits people from investing
all their time in creating content anyway it is a very very disturbing tactic but before i tell
you how disturbing just a quick reminder to subscribe to my second channel daisy
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latest video please subscribe to the channel we are going to have a lot of fun there so what about
this incredibly stupid article about tim paul makes me think that deplatforming him is the goal
it's the heavy emphasis on the tomb pool is fostering right-wing extremism on youtube
narrative which is an accusation that youtube with its uh newfound overwhelmingly corporatist
bent is exceedingly paranoid about for example from the article how did poole reach these levels
of prominence and profit becca lewis is a phd candidate at stanford university three years ago
she conducted a study examining how the youtube algorithm was funneling viewers to the far right
poole was a central subject of her work like social media influences political youtubers
packaged themselves as more authentic and relatable and therefore more trustworthy
than mainstream news sources lewis told the daily beast okay just to interrupt if you're wondering
what the ideological bend of becca lewis is check out how she tweeted about this article i talked
to robert silverman for his truly astonishing investigation into far-right youtuber tim poole
settle in for this one it's long painstakingly referenced and the definitive piece on one of
youtube's most influential far-right creators the article also talks about his pattern of open
sexism and misogyny here's an old thread where i discuss tim's non-stop barrage of
harassment against me throughout 2018 and 2019. he has done this to several other
women researchers and journalists too that's becca lewis for you nothing she says about tim
pool or far-right extremism or really anyone to the right of stalin should be taken seriously
it's also worth noting that the only other named sources silverman uses to attest to the apparently
deplorable nature of tim paul's personality and extreme nature of his commentary are left-wing
feminist activist lori penny who would likely loathe timpool because of his criticisms of
feminism and daniel lombroso another lefty journal formerly of the atlantic who wrote a hit piece on
lauren southern that was so blatantly false that i was able to make an entire video disproving the
claims it's in the video description as well if you would like to watch it anyway to continue
one of the more visible forms of evidence we can find of radicalization on the platform is watching
the influences themselves get radicalized over time lewis said that's definitely the direction
pool's content is headed after leaving fusion paul went back to covering demonstrations and political
events like the diplora ball a dc shindig hosted by extremely online maga luminaries the week of
trump's inauguration this meant greater contact with the fringes of the ideological spectrum
right considering that in 2020 75 million people voted for trump i would hardly call
the deplorable and the maga movement fringe but then again this article is not what you would
call a sensible one still it continues lewis told the daily beast that mutually beneficial
collaborations between conservative and far-right circles were commonplace in 2016 and 2017
when youtube was taking a more hands-off approach towards moderating extremes content far right
creators viewed the soon-to-be called intellectual dark web and others like pool as a useful bridge
to a new possibly lucrative audience and a batch of fresh recruits you get the picture silverman
is trying to position timpool as a bridge to the far right perhaps secretly far-right himself by
virtue of being radicalized by his own success and backs up his assertion by using one of the most
anti-trump anti-conservative people you will ever find in becca lewis who along with the editorial
line of the daily beast consider the far right to be anyone they dislike or disagree with remember
far right is simply a kind of coverall insult the regressive left users to denote that they think
someone is both racist and immoral conversely they unconsciously use the term left wing to
describe themselves in order to denote that they are moral compassionate tolerant and smart
the irony of that is inescapable so now you get the formula silverman is using in terms of dog
whistling that tim poole is a dangerous person to have on a platform he interweaves this allegation
with tacit shaming of youtube for promoting tim's videos business is booming per pool with a dozen
employees on payroll since april a prominence made possible in no small part by youtube
promoting his work to its front page i know for a fact he said during a december 2020 live stream
the youtube algorithm drives the majority of my content at other times he'll complain that youtube
is suppressing his content or will soon ban him outright youtube picks and chooses which content
gets views and which creators become famous he told a twitter follower apparently they've chosen
pool so you can see quite clearly the message to youtube which is you are allowing an extremist
facilitator on your platform and if you don't get rid of him you are complicit in that extremism
and honestly it's taken less than this to get channels demonetized or banned you know see
my previous examples that i gave and it doesn't matter how untrue it is and trust me this is all
very very untrue youtube since it is a corporation that deals with other corporations and is owned by
google has corporate interest to protect the last thing they want is a controversy potentially
causing companies to pull their ads from videos which has happened in the past that's why they
seem to just jump at shadows a lot of the time and the really ironic thing about the allegations
made in the article not just by silverman but by becker lewis in her studies that apparently prove
commentators like tim poole are funneling people towards right-wing extremism is that another
study that came out after becca lewis's study has found the exact opposite in 2019 a study
out of penn state's political science department found that rather than conservative online content
leading to radicalization as the popular gateway narrative insists the reverse appears to be true
as burbeck university of london's eric kaufman puts it in his summary of the study's key finding
contrary to the gateway drug narrative the new study shows the intellectual dark web which
includes of course people like jordan peters and prageru and joe rogan is de-radicalizing potential
alt-right viewers so how does this work well the researchers identified five categories in what
they call the alternative influence network or a i n these are from left to right the liberals like
joe rogan the skeptics like carl benjamin and jordan peterson the conservatives like stephen
crowder ben shapiro and i guess you know me the alt light which generally attempts to antagonize
or troll the left and sometimes espouses racial ideology and on the right most flank the alt-right
which is the actual racist anti-semitic far-right who often advocate for an all-white ethnostate now
according to the study the conservative branch of the ain was actually responsible for a decline in
views of alt light and right content between 2013 and 2016 all segmented the ain including the old
light and alt right rose in viewership however since the middle of 2017 both of these ideological
segments of the ain have seen a steep decline in viewership by contrast conservative and liberal
content creators who have much more in common with mainstream discourse than other segments of
the ain have either continued to grow or plateaued in viewership these patterns are inconsistent with
radicalization happening at a major scale indeed from these data alone de-radicalization seems a
more plausible baseline hypothesis so not only is silverman's article based on personal attacks
and implausible leaps it's also based on bunk research but unfortunately as i mentioned it is
effective it is people like silverman and becca lewis and martin stefano and carlos mata who have
contributed to the hesitancy of youtube in recent years to promote independent content creators
youtube openly admitted a couple of years ago that they would be promoting what they called
authoritative sources on newsworthy topics to the top of search results so legacy outlets like cnn
msnbc etc etc totally leaving independent content creators in the lurch no matter how rigorous our
sourcing and well sought out our commentary that's what youtube does i'm echoing what lauren chen
said on this topic i know but i deeply resent articles like this because they make my job an
awful lot harder it is nearly impossible for me to make a video about american politics anymore which
is a large chunk of what i do and actually get a sustainable amount of views because nobody is
allowed to see it the algorithm just disappears it into the ether and i know how many of you
just don't get my notifications anymore when i release a video because you tell me none of this
is accidental and it is at least in part thanks to hacks like robert silverman at the daily beast for
creating this dynamic so what do you all think of this let me know in the comments below and please
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