A day after the YouTuber PewDiePie pledges $50,000 to the Anti-Defamation League, he backtracks and says the decision was a 'mistake.'
— announced that he would be donating $50,000 to the Anti-Defamation League anti-hate group, he backtracked and said his initial decision was a"mistake" and that the contribution didn't"feel genuine."in the past. For example, in 2017, he paid two men in Sri Lanka to hold up a sign reading"Death to All Jews" as well as a man dressed as Jesus to say"Hitler did absolutely nothing wrong.
On Tuesday, Kjellberg announced plans for the ADL donation in a video unveiling his YouTube Red Diamond Creator Award, a new honor for channels that have hit the 100 million subscriber mark. He noted that the donation to the ADL"doesn't make sense to everyone, especially since they've outright spoken against me," but added,"I think it's important; this just isn't my fight anymore.
He said he originally saw the ADL donation as a way to dispel"alt-right claims that [have] been thrown against me." Specifically, Kjellberg said that after the mass killings in Christchurch, New Zealand, earlier this year, he felt"the responsibility to do something about it." The attacker in the shootings at two mosques had urged people during a live-stream of the massacre to"subscribe to PewDiePie.
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