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velma@sh.itjust.works to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago

Channel 5 shares their email list with Hunter Biden who used it to pump a crypto scam apparently

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Channel 5 shares their email list with Hunter Biden who used it to pump a crypto scam apparently

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velma@sh.itjust.works to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago
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  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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    1. Why the FUCK are they arbitrarily handing their mailing list away without consent?
    2. Hunter Biden lol jfc
    3. Fuck crypto
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      If there’s something that Andrew from channel 5 understands it’s doing stuff without consent

      Edit ah shit I scrolled down and someone said this an hour ago already. Still worth noting

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        I don’t know much about this user but saw the other comment and now yours. Gonna go out on a limb and say this guy isn’t an upstanding citizen lol.

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      He’s been doing a full-scale media push recently; I keep seeing clips of him being interviewed on a ton of platforms.

      If it turns out the end goal has been a crypto scam, Hunter will absolutely secure his place in the pantheon of presidential failsons (failchildren?). Godspeed, Hunter.

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    Jesus WTF

    • velma@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      Andrew continuing to not understand the concept of consent.

      • preludeofme@lemmy.world
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        Ok I’m guessing I need to do some more homework on Andrew…

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          She had been out one night in the Spring of 2017 when she ran into him outside The Boot. She said he approached her and asked her if they could go elsewhere to hang out alone. She said “sure,” but added that she needed to go up to her nearby dorm room to get something. She said that Callaghan followed her to her dorm. When she told him to wait outside, she said he insisted on coming upstairs. Then, she said, he cornered her in her room. That move caught her off guard, as she hadn’t actually intended to invite Callaghan upstairs.

          When she asked Callagahn to leave, she said he refused. She then asked him to close his eyes while she changed her clothes, but then he grabbed her and began having sex with her, she said.

          She said she told him to stop, as he was causing her pain from a previous injury–she had broken her back in 2013. Emma showed The Stranger a 2021 email exchange with her doctor, wherein she discussed this back injury and a subsequent MRI test she took over concerns that she had reinjured herself. When she alleges she was being assaulted by Callaghan, the pain from this past injury felt like “tearing a muscle,” she said.

          She said she remembers crying and telling him, “You can’t do that, this hurts,” due to back and hip pain from her injury, but “he just told me to shut up.” She claimed she said ‘No’ “at least three times,” and in response Callaghan covered her mouth “at least once” but otherwise ignored her.

          “I wasn’t a person in that moment. It was beyond being objectified. It was like I did not exist. It felt as if he was looking right through me,” she said.

          There’s multiple allegations of sexual assault and rape against him.

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            Whaaaaaat the fuck

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    I wonder if this included all the people who donated money to get Andrew Callaghan out of immediate legal hot water with Bill Joiner after his Dear Kelly film. And that’s after he got in trouble in 2023 for sexual misconduct.

    I’ll admit that he and his team are doing fascinating work. It’s certainly some form of journalism and not purely entertainment. But it’s also clear that his organization has absolutely no adults in the room giving them strategic advice.

    Update: 404 Media just published an article on this: https://www.404media.co/channel-5-gave-hunter-biden-a-list-of-its-subscribers-emails-for-some-reason/

    Sept 9 2026 update: Andrew publicly posted a 4-minute video elaborating on what happened. “[I] didn’t know that I had an email list…” for a dude that’s been making YouTube content for years, has a highly-valued Patreon account, and now runs a VOD platform to claim that he’s never had an email list strains credulity.

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      No I have no crack head crypto email in my inbox. I’m not sure if gofundme gives emails out like that.

      I like c5. The issue people bring up about him may or may not be true but his work is important so that’s that for me.

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    What the fuck kind of ‘product’ did you expect Hunter Biden to be launching?

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      I kinda thought he was going to run for office with how he’s been hitting the podcast circuit lately. I’m not surprised by him trying to grift with a crypto coin.

      It’s appalling that Channel 5 handed over their email list like that though.

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        If there are any EU citizens in there, that might be illegal.

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        There’s most definitely a very hard push to revamp Hunter Biden’s image and eventually push him as a politician. Why would the guy appear on every podcast under the sun if he doesn’t have political ambitions? It’s such an obvious OP.

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          Crypto currency has been quite a money-maker for politicians after all.

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    GDPR violation, ah no wait it’s the land of the free-to-do-as-they-fucking-want(-as-long-as-they-got-money)

    whew, long name

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      Though she doubts her hosts moralities /she seems more at ease /in the land of doing-as-you-please / then outside in the cold

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    Who is channel 5

    • velma@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      Channel 5 (also known as “Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan” on YouTube) is an American digital media company and web channel, billed as a “digital journalism experience.”[1] The show is a spinoff of the group’s previous project, All Gas No Brakes, which was itself based on the book of the same name. The channel is hosted by Andrew Callaghan and has 3.6 million YouTube subscribers as of July 2026.

  • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
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    Is this some joke account? Channel “5ive” News?

    Also, “homie”?

    • architect@thelemmy.club
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      You have Google.

      • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
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        Hello. I say this with all of the kindness in the world.

        Please fornicate yourself with a cactus, you absolute twat

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          Paige, no!

      • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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        me when somebody asks a question on the questions and discussion platform: 😤😡

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    Biden Fucker is using ai for social media posts and dumb shits argued with me here about how he’s eloquent because he’s a politician LOL he’s no politician he’s a fucking crack head and you got played by a crack head ya morons.

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      you got played by a crack head ya morons.

      Played how exactly? He’s a crackhead who admits he’s a crackhead. It’s not like we elected him president.

      And sadly, the bar for eloquence is much lower than it used to be. But he talks good for a crackhead.

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    This is pretty much exactly why I use Port87. Instant block for the Channel 5 label.

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    Well it worked for Trump, messing with crypto and running for president. Hunter maybe has something similar going:

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6073586-hunter-biden-says-i-may-have-to-run-in-2028/

    Hunter running for president sounds lolworthy but Trump seemed the same way, so.

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    Anyone who shills a crypto coin is dead to me in my opinion.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    don’t give your email out to anyone.

    • XLE@piefed.social
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      Instance registration requirements check out.

      • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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        yup. refreshing when a sign up doesn’t force me to give out an email.

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