Patreon

A site to encourage donations for content providers, but from late 2020 deleting dissident accounts.

 http://www.patreon.com/  
Started: May 2013
Founders: Jack Conte, Sam Yam

Patreon is a company that manages payments to content providers, often in the terms of monthly subscriptions. In late 2020 started removing providers that did not follow official narratives.

EU Disinfolab pushing closing of accounts

On 18 December 2020, The European Union-funded nominally independent EU DisinfoLab released a study questioning «whether Patreon's efforts to tackle disinformation prioritized English-language content over that of other languages. The study «identified at least 17 Spanish accounts that monetize and spread QAnon content and other conspiracy theories.»

Besides Patreon's "failure to remove all accounts that directly reference QAnon", the study pointed to "a number of other accounts that monetize other conspiracies like COVID-19 denialism or unfounded theories about 5G that indirectly interweave QAnon ideas into their narratives."

"These examples illustrate that the measures implemented by Patreon are not fully enforced and still leave room for the circulation of QAnon theories on the platform," wrote the author also stating that «the problem of disinformation goes far beyond QAnon and argues that more action is needed against the spread and monetization of dangerous conspiracy theories on Patreon.

Censorship on Patreon

These are just some examples of a widespread censorship particularly of COVID-19 dissidents and resistance.

OffGuardian

In December 2021, Patreon 'suspended' OffGuardian for "repeated use unfounded or debunked theories to argue against broadly supported public health measures on COVID-19". The site, a prominent leftist COVID-dissident, might be able to get Patreon back if it removes "any and all content that advances COVID-19 medical misinformation."

Removing KenFM

On February 19th, 2021, Patreon closed the account of KenFM, the largest non-corporate media in Germany.

Removing Demokratischer Widerstand

In February 2021 Patreon cancelled the account of the German group Demokratischer Widerstand (Democratic Resistance) with a spurious explanation. The group publishes a weekly newspaper since April 2020 with left leaning critique of the government Covid-19 measures. Mainstream media reporting in Germany targeted them from the earliest moment on.

Removing Geopolitics & Empire

In February 2021, Patreon declared it is going to deplatform "Geopolitics & Empire", an independent news and analysis radio show.

Removing Last American Vagabond

In February 2021 The Last American Vagabond was told to remove remove all "medical misinformation" or be delisted

In February 2021, Patreon stated they would imminently close The Last American Vagabond, one of the best sites for Covid-19 news and analysis, unless all "Covid-19 medical misinformation" was removed. Whitney Webb, who is a writer for that website, gets her Patreon account censored in March since her reports might dissuade her audience from taking preventative measures to fight COVID-19.

Qanon

In October 2020 , Patreon announced that it would be taking action against accounts who use its platform to actively spread QAnon’s beliefs, «a growing threat».“QAnon-dedicated creators that are identified by our Policy and Trust & Safety teams will have their accounts removed from Patreon.”

Customers «who have spread some QAnon ideas but “are not dedicated to spreading QAnon content” would also be given the opportunity to recant and «bring their accounts into compliance, according to the company.»

An account called SGTreport got demonetized

Patreon on Wikispooks

The following people on Wikispooks have Patreon pages, semantically represented by the property:Has patreon:

	Has patreon	Description
'reallygraceful'	https://www.patreon.com/reallygraceful	American Youtuber with an interest in secret societies and mystery religions.
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed	https://patreon.com/nafeez	UK academic with extensive knowledge of deep politics and the use of false flag terror, featured frequently on Unwelcome Guests.
AltCensored	https://www.patreon.com/altCensored	A website archiving material censored by YouTube
Kevin Barrett	https://www.patreon.com/DrKevinBarrett	An academic and 9-11/Dissident.
Brian Berletic	https://www.patreon.com/landdestroyer	Researcher, Writer, Commentator, banned from Twitter in 2022.
James Corbett	https://www.patreon.com/corbettreport	James Corbett is a popular critic of the US establishment who has been active on the internet since 2007.
Ole Dammegård	https://www.patreon.com/lightonconspiracies
Ryan Dawson	https://www.patreon.com/ryandawson	American historian and activist; founder of the Anti Neocon Report
Dan Dicks	https://www.patreon.com/PressForTruth	Dan Dicks is a regular watcher of Bilderberg.
Gordon Dimmack	https://www.patreon.com/gordondimmack	UK independent journalist
Jay Dyer	https://www.patreon.com/JayDyer	Author of 'Esoteric Hollywood'
Films For Action	https://www.patreon.com/filmsforaction	A provider of inspiring videos. Named as an outlet of "Fake News" by PropOrNot.
Jose Galison	https://www.patreon.com/nowayjose2020
Maryam Henein	https://www.patreon.com/maryamhenein	Activist and health practitioner, known for Vanishing of the Bees.
Katherine Horton	https://www.patreon.com/stop007	Reportedly engaged in conflict with intelligence agencies. As well as calling for exposure of the Deep State, she has repeatedly called for violence against those involved in it, leading former supporters to view her as an agent provocateur and infiltrator.
IceAgeFarmer	https://www.iceagefarmer.com/ wp link placeholder	California based researcher with an interest in the manipulation of the global food supply, the coming global solar minimum, to the globalist plan to "reset the table" and transform global food systems.
Caitlin Johnstone	https://www.patreon.com/caitlinjohnstone	Australian deep state aware activist anarchist
Matthew Russell Lee	https://www.patreon.com/MatthewRussellLee
Jefferson Morley	https://www.patreon.com/jeffersonmorley	US journalist who founded of The Deep State Blog
Jack Murphy	https://www.patreon.com/TheTeamHouse	American soldier turned author.
Next News Network	https://www.patreon.com/NextNews	Named as an "extreme antigovernment group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Kurt Nimmo	https://www.patreon.com/kurtnimmo
OffGuardian	https://www.patreon.com/offguardian	Produced by a group of Guardian readers unhappy with its censorship policy
James Evan Pilato	https://www.patreon.com/mediamonarchy
Project Censored	https://www.patreon.com/projectcensored	A long running academic investigation into the control of the US corporate media.
Pearse Redmond	https://www.patreon.com/pearseredmond	Host of Porkins Policy Review
Saidit	https://www.patreon.com/SaidIt	A non-corporate, open source, alternative to Reddit
Inessa Sinchougova	https://www.patreon.com/inessaS	Inessa S has worked as translator of Russian texts for years.
Styxhexenhammer666	https://www.patreon.com/Styxhexenhammer666	An American libertarian YouTuber.
The Black Vault	https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=21993619	A source of FOIAed US government documents
The Duran	https://www.patreon.com/theduran	Alternative view on US/Nato foreign policy.
The Grayzone	https://www.patreon.com/Grayzone
The Juice Media	https://www.patreon.com/TheJuiceMedia	Producer of videos
The Last American Vagabond	https://www.patreon.com/TheLastAmericanVagabond	Heavily censored by Western corporate/governments for Covid-19 coverage and other deep state subjects.
True Pundit	https://www.patreon.com/truepundit
Truthstream Media	https://www.patreon.com/truthstreammedia	An internet based, independent media outlet.
Brittany Venti	https://www.patreon.com/BrittanyVenti	An American internet celebrity, who has been deeply affected by censorship on social media.
Elizabeth Vos	https://www.patreon.com/ElizabethLeaVos
Diana West	https://www.patreon.com/DianaWest

 

A document sourced from Patreon

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Author(s)	Description
Document:Novara Media and the Integrity Initiative	web page	Novara Media Integrity Initiative Aaron Bastani Anne Applebaum Ben Judah	Phil Bevin	A critical review of Novara Media and their unlikely connections to the Integrity Initiative

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