Video description explicitly mentions a partnership (not just affiliate link) + 2min 20s segment embedded in the video.

The person in question: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Lapierre

User Lumpy_Carpet9877 shares more info:

Vincent Lapierre’s Wikipedia page is quite explicit about his far-right positioning and includes numerous sources. He worked for several years for a far-right organization founded by Alain Soral, which promotes anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, conspiracist, sexist, masculinist, transphobic, and homophobic ideas, and who fled to Russia to escape justice.

He is close to Dieudonné) (a Holocaust denier). He founded Le Média pour tous, a far-right website that particularly targets anti-fascists and defenders of Jewish rights. He has always been close to conspiracist circles

I’ll add that if you dare venture on his youtube channel (at the risk of ruining your suggestion algorithm like I did to provide the screenshot), you’ll see that most videos are typical far right content / talking points

Update: read Proton’s response below

You’re right to raise this, and we want to address it directly and provide you important context on how this happened.

Vincent Lapierre’s channel should never have been part of our affiliate and sponsorship program, because we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community.

Proton operates globally, and while our services are available to everyone regardless of political views and our mission is consistent everywhere, our knowledge of every local media landscape is not. In this case, our team didn’t have enough context about the French space to make a well-informed decision, and that’s on us.

We also want to be straight about what a placement like this is and isn’t. An affiliate or sponsorship arrangement is a transactional placement for awareness, not an endorsement of a creator’s views. In the case of Vincent Lapierre, this was a single video sponsorship, not a partnership.

But that distinction doesn’t excuse what happened here. The responsibility to vet who we put our name next to is ours, and we didn’t meet it this time. We’re now reviewing our vetting process and our guidelines for our marketing agencies to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

If you see something like this again, tell us. We rely on your feedback and vigilance."

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    87·
    3 days ago

    albeit a little less after the Trump-endorsing antitrust tweet by Yen a few years ago

    I still don’t understand what was wrong with that.

    He called a very specific, very pro anti-trust decision (made for all the wrong reasons, but that’s besides the point), a good thing.

    People started calling him a Nazi.

    I just don’t get it…

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Strange, I remember a lot more than you do.

      Here is our official response, also available on the Mastodon post in the screenshot:

      Corporate capture of Dems is real. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation.

      Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidently has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote.

      At a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up - JD Vance.

      By working on the front lines of many policy issues, we have seen the shift between Dems and Republicans over the past decade first hand. Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.

      Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.

      https://archive.ph/quYyb

        • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
          33·
          2 days ago

          Yes. This official statement from the Proton corporate account is worse, and from a higher position of authority than the CEO’s personal account.

          I find you exhibit a lot of apparent ignorance. I hope that’s just coincidence.

          • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            23·
            2 days ago

            Mate, what are you on about?

            Proton support cases, not political sides. Yes, in the bit you quoted, they bashed Dems and praised Reps for… supporting their case. How does that go against anything I said about them?

            • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
              3·
              2 days ago

              Mate, they were lying about the side. Unless you want to tell me they were either lying or incredibly stupid, your statement is nonsensical.

              • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                13·
                2 days ago

                I’m sorry, you’re not making any sense to me. Maybe a language barrier?

                What side? Are you saying that they’ve been secretly supporting right-wing agenda through over a decade of supporting left-right-a-centre projects, as long as they’ve aligned with their very specific agenda? And, after all that time, they accidentally tripped and got outed by supporting a random dude in France?

                • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
                  3·
                  2 days ago

                  They didn’t secretly support the right-wing agenda. They explicitly supported it by endorsing the entire Trump admin.

                  Help me understand if you are ignorant accidentally or maliciously: did you know about Project 2025, or not?

                  (And yes, feigning further stupidity will be evidence of malice on your part, Alaknar, especially after acting like you’re so clever.)

                  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    3·
                    2 days ago

                    Tough pill to swallow if you’re paying these friends-of-the-GOP for “privacy” - as displayed in this thread

      • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        17·
        3 days ago

        This was after Trump 1.0 and before the insurrection. So it’s more like: “Imagine praising private Hitler in the trenches for his amazing art and then being surprised by negative reactions 30 years later”.

    • Ilandar@lemmy.today
      English
      41·
      3 days ago

      Most people have no critical thinking left now. They just swing wildly from outrage to outrage, cancelling things left and right every other week and retreating further into the little safe space bubble they’ve created for themselves. Algorithmic social media and internet addiction has trained their brains to behave like this normally, so expecting them to slow down and find some nuance in a discussion is unfortunately too much to ask. You can’t talk to these people anymore, until they unplug and detox they will remain on outrage culture autopilot 24/7.

    • egrets@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

      Ah, yeah, I’m not saying that. I didn’t like that it was a blatant public licking of Trump’s boot, and I didn’t like his intimation that the GOP is now the bastion of small tech businesses (as if the massive open bribes by tech leaders to Trump weren’t happening, and as if the GOP hadn’t led the fight against net neutrality).

      • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        26·
        3 days ago

        I didn’t like that it was a blatant public licking of Trump’s boot

        Stating that a good decision was a good decision equals licking the boot. Got it.

        I didn’t like his intimation that the GOP is now the bastion of small tech businesses

        At the time, the Democrats defaulted to oppose everything the GOP was doing, which - at the time - meant standing up in defence of Meta, Musk, TikTok, and similar, because Trump was throwing a hissy fit and - completely accidentally - forcing his people to make a lot of good legislation against massive corporations.

        Meaning: at the time the Dems were pro-big business, and the GOP were - for all the wrong reasons and accidentally - pro consumer.

        Nobody was saying anything about “small business”.

        Net neutrality is a completely unrelated issue that the Proton people have stood for countless times.

        • egrets@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          You’ve got more energy for this conversation than I have, I’m afraid! My general feeling is that you’re understating the platform and the tone of the post, and the political climate in which the statement was made, and that Yen did much the same when he posted it, but I won’t pursue this further.

          • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            16·
            3 days ago

            Nah. Yen, and Proton in general, have been extremely consistent throughout the years. Promoting Net Neutrality, privacy, anti-monopoly, and anti-trust efforts.

            Sometimes they praise the Left, if they do things that strengthen these things, sometimes they praise the Right. That’s all there is to it.

            And, again, at the time there was nothing really malicious about supporting Trump. Sure, he was a moron, but he wasn’t doing anything outright fascist/totalitarian - the tweet was from December 2024, all of that shit went down starting on January 6th.