PewDiePie angrily accuses media of 'out-of-context' reports on antisemitic video

The YouTuber, who lost support from Walt Disney Company and Google for posts featuring neo-Nazi 'jokes', claimed Wall Street Journal was 'scared' of him

YouTube star PewDiePie has released an impassioned, 10-minute diatribe in which he blames the mainstream media for cherry-picking parts of his videos to make him look like an antisemite.

On Tuesday, the Walt Disney Company and Google severed ties with the 27-year-old YouTuber, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, after the Wall Street Journal highlighted the fact that he'd posted several videos featuring antisemitic or neo-Nazi "jokes", including one where he paid two men to hold a "Death to All Jews" sign. Another video features a man dressed as Jesus saying "Hitler did absolutely nothing wrong".