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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."

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not going to be playing any of this tribalist bullshit. EOT.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So it was malice from the beginning. Disgusting. At least own it.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You talking about yourself?

You're refusing to believe that someone can say something positive about a member of a camp without fully 100% committing themselves into that camp.