Cameo App Condemns Capitol Hill Riot While Hosting Proud Boys Founder

Cameo App Condemns Capitol Hill Riot While Hosting Proud Boys Founder

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3vqa5/cameo-proud-boys-gavin-mcinnes

In an internal email sent to employees this week, Steven Galanis, the CEO of celebrity video app Cameo, congratulated the company, saying its mission was "more important than ever," while simultaneously hosting a profile of, and generating profit from, Gavin McInnes, the founder of far-right street-fighting gang The Proud Boys which played a role in the violent riots on Capitol Hill this week.

"Team—yesterday was one of the toughest days in the history of our democracy. As a historian, the parallel that drew closest to mind was the 1933 Reichstag Fire in Germany which Hitler used to establish much of the iron fisted rule that would eventually enable the Holocaust," Galanis wrote in the email, which a Cameo spokesperson shared when asked for comment on Cameo hosting McInnes. (Disclosure: Gavin McInnes was a co-founder of VICE. He left the company in 2008 and has had no involvement since then. He later founded the Proud Boys in 2016.)

Cameo App Condemns Capitol Hill Riot While Hosting Proud Boys Founder

Jan 8, 2021, 5:36pm UTC
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3vqa5/cameo-proud-boys-gavin-mcinnes > In an internal email sent to employees this week, Steven Galanis, the CEO of celebrity video app Cameo, congratulated the company, saying its mission was "more important than ever," while simultaneously hosting a profile of, and generating profit from, Gavin McInnes, the founder of far-right street-fighting gang The Proud Boys which played a role in the violent riots on Capitol Hill this week. > "Team—yesterday was one of the toughest days in the history of our democracy. As a historian, the parallel that drew closest to mind was the 1933 Reichstag Fire in Germany which Hitler used to establish much of the iron fisted rule that would eventually enable the Holocaust," Galanis wrote in the email, which a Cameo spokesperson shared when asked for comment on Cameo hosting McInnes. (Disclosure: Gavin McInnes was a co-founder of VICE. He left the company in 2008 and has had no involvement since then. He later founded the Proud Boys in 2016.)