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."

  • tangible@piefed.social
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    16 hours ago

    I’m not familiar with this guy, is there a US equivalent he could be compared to?

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      16 hours ago

      Ehhhh it’s hard to have an accurate comparison but I guess he’s around the same age and have the same vibes as say someone like Nick Fuentes

      • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        12 hours ago

        That question is equivalent to someone in Europe or Australia or wherever asking who their equivalent would be to a right-wing US politician.

        Don’t be that guy.

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          12 hours ago

          It’s just that people here in the US can’t seem to realize the rest of the world don’t necessarily know what their politician relates to in the US. Don’t be that guy.

              • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                6 hours ago

                Rude is subjective. I was speaking plainly.

                No you weren’t. And since you wanna bring “subjective” vs “objective” into it:

                Ah, yes. Explain the world based on its center of the universe. Smart. /s

                This shining example of a comment of yours is called “being a smartass”, which is objectively rude.

                Source: am a parent of 5 kids, including teenagers. I have heard that piss-poor excuse to be rude more times than I can count now.