YouTuber Shane Dawson posts video apologizing for pedophilia jokes

A famous YouTuber has issued a video statement after allegations of pedophilia began circulating about him on Twitter.

Shane Dawson, who has well over 11.7 million subscribers on his main YouTube account, was the subject of social media rumours on Wednesday after quotes from an old episode of the "Shane and Friends" podcast in which he jokes about pedophilia began being re-shared.

The section of the podcast, which you can listen to a the 7:20 mark, features Dawson joking about googling naked babies and his "justification" for pedophilia: Read more...