Channel 5, the YouTube channel hosted by Andrew Callaghan, said it gave a list of its email subscribers to Hunter Biden, the former president’s son, who went on to promote his new memecoin, a move that a data privacy expert told 404 Media is likely illegal in some jurisdictions.
Callaghan has repeatedly interviewed Biden on camera. Apparently over the cross of that source and interviewer relationship, Biden “asked if he could use our mailing list whenever he launched a new product,” according to a statement posted by Channel 5 to X on Monday. The statement said that Channel 5 did actually provide Biden with real user data: “We provided him a simple csv sheet from our email list to help him expand his audience.”
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