I’ve been skeptical of her work. She makes a lot of valid points about PH’s shortcomings and things they need to fix, but she was also a prominent voice in spreading misinformation about at least one actress that I’m aware of, going hard into very serious accusations all based on a single tweet from some random person, causing pretty significant damage to the actress’s career as now many platforms are afraid to host her content. To the best of my knowledge, she’s never recanted the claims, although just about every media outlet that reported on that story has deleted their articles on it.
She seems to put about as much work into fact-checking herself as PH puts into protecting their users. And when you’re dealing with a subject as intense as producing CSAM, you really shouldn’t be loosey-goosey with your vetting process. I feel like she’s doing this more to get eyes on her book deal than to actually help people.
Ellesclub. Mickelwait had spread this claim across a few of her Twitter accounts that Ellesclub was a trafficking victim and was underage in the videos on PH at the time. Most of the proof she refers to doesn’t actually exist, though.
The most concrete proof she’s put out was Elles’ stated age on her social/content profiles. Because apparently Mickelwait can’t think of any reason why a pornstar’s bio would say she’s been 18 for ten years straight.
I’ve been skeptical of her work. She makes a lot of valid points about PH’s shortcomings and things they need to fix, but she was also a prominent voice in spreading misinformation about at least one actress that I’m aware of, going hard into very serious accusations all based on a single tweet from some random person, causing pretty significant damage to the actress’s career as now many platforms are afraid to host her content. To the best of my knowledge, she’s never recanted the claims, although just about every media outlet that reported on that story has deleted their articles on it.
She seems to put about as much work into fact-checking herself as PH puts into protecting their users. And when you’re dealing with a subject as intense as producing CSAM, you really shouldn’t be loosey-goosey with your vetting process. I feel like she’s doing this more to get eyes on her book deal than to actually help people.
Which actress?
Ellesclub. Mickelwait had spread this claim across a few of her Twitter accounts that Ellesclub was a trafficking victim and was underage in the videos on PH at the time. Most of the proof she refers to doesn’t actually exist, though.
The most concrete proof she’s put out was Elles’ stated age on her social/content profiles. Because apparently Mickelwait can’t think of any reason why a pornstar’s bio would say she’s been 18 for ten years straight.
Probably trying to avoid alcohol and renting cars. Definitely nothing to do with anything that rhymes with Square Lee: Bee Pal
Totally thought you meant non porn when you said actress. I could definitely see how that would mess up someone’s career when they are in porn.