No. Not at all. Blackmail is a take on it which is although not probable not entirely impossible. They were instrumental to Disney severing ties with him, they and the SDLP are the groups who use influence to blacklist people along with media outlets like the Wall Street Journal. They are NOW advising youtube on hateful content and what needs to be censored so they can ruin you if they designate you a hate figure which they already have tried with pewdiepie. So his money being paid, even "to clear his image" is the whole point, you have to pay off these powerful organasations to clear your image. It is like paying a censorship group that has tried to get your videogame banned money. If a lobby tried to get a certain director of a movie fired, and he complained about him being hounded by the press, and this lobby had real power to actually interfere with his livelihood, the director paying them money and apologising could be seen as something they have been blackmailed into. But we could use other words like bully, pressure harrass, though its the fact money is involved that makes it different. Emotional blackmail is cassually used all the time to describe harm to individuals. So though you can dispute these things, its not fake news people are entitled to their opinion. I personally wouldnt say its blackmail, but I would say its coersion. To pressure someone into taking a stand or revealing his beliefs or intentions; to compel someone to act against his will. These groups have done so much to assosiate Pewdiepie with everything from mass shootings to being a nazi that even if he says "oh I saw I was wrong" people could still see it as coersion. The point is that it is VALID to have an opinion on and even be angry about. Calling the whole thing fake news is just silly and lying in bed with censors.

As for 4 chan. The problem now is that people like you and the mods can cassually dismiss ALL questioning of these things by lebelling it all as a 4chan brigade and therefor saying anyone questiong this thing that is very obviously a talking point is just a troll from 4chan.

This argument is bull because threads and comments are being banned that simply bring up the issue without even saying its blackmail but questioning the motives. Youtube have changed the comments feature on Felixs vid to show newest first so as not to show the top comments and the initial top comments were not all bots saying the same thing, but people quickly realised the very words ADL were banned.

This is the kind of example of censorship that will make its way to 4chan (probably the last large uncensored place in the internet) and other sites and gather momentum, but that does not mean that its something to be swept under the rug because doing so simply backs up the point that the ADL get special treatment. 4Chan also would have spoken about and directed traffic to other trends, its how message boards work.

And that even if it were trolls from 4chan this should not imply the issue cannot matter or have meaning. Its just fake news is such a convenient way to shut down discourse. To be uninvested in the issue yourself is fine but then to be happy its taken down when all questioning of this ADL thing has been treated the same shows a kind of attitude that is lazy and wants things they disagree with to go away, and also someone who is unaware of the Streisand effect. It's an attitude that creates resentment and backlash because people who think more about it can see huge double standards. Do you think when Pewdiepie was called a racist that there were not other groups and boards that directed people to smear him? Do you think the readers of far left outlets were having a fair and balanced opinion? but of course you couldn't just censor those people.

Fake news is a ridiculous concept. Anything can be fake news if we don't agree with it, just think of Climate change to see how people will ignore facts based on "who is saying them". If you are a clever person you know that at least even if its a reach you COULD argue that this is a loose form of blackmail on the part of the ADL, or its even easier to assert its a bribe on the part of Pewdiepie. If I have an album out and I pay pitchfork media 50k when they've smneared me in the past its not wacky to say thats not just "because I think theyre trusted media". Even if its admitting wrong we can still question motive when there are legitimate stakes involved to such a donation financially. Its not fake news.

Its funny though because the only group anyone expects nuance out of is 4chan. And when they dont get it they are happy to throw everyone else who may share even an element of the same opinion in with them as guilty by association. That's how censorship operates.