In the wake of multiple manipulative petitions created on this site that are supported with evidence that is false, I believe that it is time to take action, and raise awareness about such petitions, so that they will not proliferate on this site. 

Petitions such as these sway the peoples' ideals by using false information to obtain what they want. What they may want has the possibility to harm and hurt others' reputation. A prime example of this is the petition "Remove White Supremacist Content from YouTube" by user "maria ruz". In her petition, maria uses a topic which many people may agree with at first glance. However, it happens to be a scheme to harm the reputation of a YouTuber named Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, more commonly known as PewDiePie. Felix is a swedish youtuber, and at the time of writing, the top YouTuber in the world. In the past couple of years, Felix has been part of controversial topics, and has made a few errors on camera regarding sensitive topics. While most can agree that Felix's mistakes should not be condoned, other people tend to characterize Felix by those mere mistakes. Many of his errors have been manipulated by others to seem like they are much worse, and are often brought back up to make it seem as if Felix continues to make these same mistakes. Maria's petition does this. For example:

- Maria states that Felix has "hired people to say the n-slur". While he has said it himself, there is no evidence of him paying others to say this. Another misconception is that he uses this slur on a regular basis, while in reality, it was a slip up that occurred twice.

-She also states that Felix has promoted anti-semetic content/cartoons within his videos. This is an exaggerated explanation of two events. One was showing a video from "The Wall Street Journal" regarding his mistakes, and their video had footage of Hitler. He also promoted a channel's review of an anime, and their channel so happened to have a few "risque" or derogatory jokes in their deep past. Felix was unaware of such humor and immediately proceeded to take their channel out of his video description after learning of such jokes.

-She claims that he was being racist by putting captions from people over the wrong people, who happened to be african american. This is a popular format of meme, and is satrical humor regarding not knowing who is in the picture- not making fun of races. A popular iteration of this meme is using a random, satirical quote, and putting it on a picture of Gandhi, or stating that he quoted it. Again, this is not humor towards race, it is merely a humorous mismatching of person and quote.

-She claims that he "uses the nazi heil" in one of his videos. There is no evidence of such thing. Kjellberg himself even joked that if he "raised his arm" the media would use such as evidence to slander him. Maria's petition is a prime example of such.

-She claims that Kjellberg paid an actor dressed as Jesus Christ to hold up a sign saying "Hitler Did Absolutely Nothing Wrong". This is an event regarding a completely different person.

There are many other points that are either manipulated or completely false to harm Kjellberg's reputation, and many petitions have been made like this.

A solution to this is to remove petitions like this from the website. If we win, people will be able to trust petitions with their supporting evidence, and will not have to read through to test the petition's argument. If we lose, petitions like this will continue to spread throughout the site, and innocent people will be harmed as a result.

Please sign this petition. Something else you can do to show your support is to subscribe to Mr. Kjellberg  , and if you live in India, unsubscribe from T-Series. This aids in another battle regarding the state of YouTube itself, and subscribing to Felix shows that creators should be prioritized in YouTube's system.

Thank you.