Social media ‘auditors’

[Paul2023]

I just saw one of these so called ‘auditors’ videos pop up on social media. The guy calls himself ‘Ay audits’.

He was obviously in a town centre and went over to a RNLI charity stand where there were two or three RNLI volunteers fundraising.

The guy filming was instantly passive aggressive, filming them and talking about migrant hotels and how the RNLI help migrants ( at sea ).

The guy filming them said he’s put the RNLI guy all over the internet. They guy didn’t say anything back and I guess don’t want to inflame the situation.

To think this is totally unacceptable, to do this to people who volunteer ( don’t get paid anything) who put their lives at risk.

The RNLI aren’t a dedicated taxi bits service to the migrants on boats , but obviously it’s their jobs to save lives, whoever they are.

I can imagine the poor man being filmed probably regrets giving up his spare time to go to a town centre to fund raise for a worthy charity.

Ive also seen other random videos of people just doing their jobs and being filmed. Some of the comments are disgusting. It’s often aimed at women , men making sexual remarks , vulgar and horrible.

What about the poor people being filmed and put all over the internet, with these vile comments made about them ? It must be embarrassing, especially if their friends and family see them.

I know we have free speech but is this behaviour really going to be allowed ?

The auditors often seem to be aggressive men , probably from the far right ? Are they from racist groups or just individual sad people?

Sad sad people whose sole intention is to inflame situations for likes and comments
if everyone ignored them they would cease to exist
total waste of skin

Reda Bouadi-Clifton is the man behind auditing Britain, he was prosecuted for filming inside one of the magistrates courts. He hates it when anyone uses his name but he’ll interfere with people trying to do their jobs just because he can film. He’s rude, misogynistic and entitled. Now these auditors where smart glasses so people are less likely to know they’re being recorded.

I've had a few of these pop up on my timeline and I think they are fucking awful.
If you film someone like that, you should have to obtain consent to post on social media or face prosecution.

The RNLI crews are volunteers who risk their own lives to save the lives of others.

Whoever was having a go at them is a cesspit-crawling despicable lowlife.

I hate how people think it’s okay to film others and plaster them all over the internet without their consent. I know it’s legal but it’s a truly awful thing to do.

Surely the RNLI volunteer can just state their policy which is presumably to rescue anyone at risk of drowning. I think people panic a bit too much about "auditors",

Nah, I think it’s despicable that they post people online without their consent when they are just going about their day. Why do you think it’s acceptable?

A man approached the RNLI in a town centre and was passive aggressive from the start.

Nobody has to contribute, you can just walk past. Why be antagonist to volunteers who save lives ?

You wouldn't say that if they'd come to your workplace to waste your time and nosy around, disrupting your business before posting footage online so people can make offensive comments about people's personal appearance.

I know a few people they've targeted, they go to a lot of public sector sites because 'we pay your wages so we're entitled to see what is being done with taxpayer money'.

Awful people - and yes it’s just for clicks and money.

So many of them flying drones over private property, and getting antagonistic and threatening when told they can’t.

Thanks for this, @FunPreventionOfficer . I'd never heard of Reda Baoudi-Clifton or his activities.

This must be the criminal behaviour you mention, when he was convicted in 2021 of filming inside Wellingborough Magistrates' Court in Northamptonshire. The sentence deprived him of his phone and fined him.

Man convicted of filming inside Wellingborough Magistrates' Court
https://www.northantslive.news/news/man-convicted-filming-inside-wellingborough-5487150

They are utterly infuriating. The best ones are where the target simply refuses to be riled up by the so called auditor.

sadly it’s usually the young police officers who end up being wrong footed by the twit and get snappy, giving him what he wants

I am so so done with these phones / filming/ posting culture. I came off SM a while ago as it is something I find so sad to watch. And we are powerless if some dick wants to film and post.

I go out and all I see are the walking dead on phones. I know if I'm ever involved in anything of interest, the first thing most would do is film it. That would probably include being run over and spread eagle on the road FFS.

Why is it ok and allowed. I would love a law to control this better.

I've seen the auditor type videos. Purposeful antagonising in most cases, respect those drone operating guys who like to antagonise.

On the other side of this debate, one auditor video highlighted situations with migrant hotels in certain coastal areas.

In that case I thought, this is the only way the truth of this is being exposed.

Videos demonstrated that hotels were occupied only by young men from Middle Eastern countries.

It highlighted how benefit claims were being processed for some ( interviewed).

There was footage showing groups hanging on corners near the hotel and other things ( facilities and offerings within the hotels) that didn't feel right and would be possibly something's a local person might feel uncomfortable with. I'm always open to challenging pre conceptions I have. Yet, I would feel uncomfortable and do about this. No media outlets will show you this.

As well as volunteers like the ones you mention, I feel sorry for real auditors now, who probably have changed their job title!

I do think we should maybe now ban videoing in public places, with exceptions for eg reporters, group leaders recording performances with permission, not using personal devices just like schools and nurseries.
Most people wouldn't want to ban ordinary photos being taken. Static image isn't quite the same thing, but some people make a good point that it might be better if someone taking an ordinary photo had to say loudly that they were, meaning anyone who didn't want to be in the background gets the chance to move away.
Not quite sure how workable it would be.
They could also ban posting things online without the person's consent (meaning you have to blur/cover people in the background if you post yourself and your friend posing) but again, not sure how workable this is.

Totally unacceptable. I think the RNLI volunteer sounds like they did a very good job staying calm in the face of such ignorance.

I donate to the RNLI, and this kind of pig ignorance just makes me want to increase my donations. I bet the ‘auditor’ (absolute tosh name BTW) would change their tune pretty quickly if they actually needed the services of the RNLI.

But who’s paying them ? How are they getting paid for these videos? They aren’t even doing anything educational or original

They’ll make money from views. Have enough views they’ll get paid.

they wouldn't have any content if people just ignored them. I reckon the more people know about them it should start shifting so people are aware to ignore them and not speak to them, it's hard for volunteers and people on the street etc but for businesses and warehouses and construction sites etc where they tend to hang around at least people can brief their staff and colleagues to ignore them. I think that it will get to a point where most people have some awareness of them and therefore the levels of engagement with auditors and the confrontations will go down along with their 'good' content. then they will need to come up with another bull shit thing to make content from.

How does any content creator make money? There's tonnes of people whos job is literally to make videos /pictures etc and post them online, not just videos like YouTube and tik tok etc but Instagram, only fans whatever. These auditors use arguments with people as their content which they film and upload to social media, and then when people click on the video and watch it they get paid for it. If there are adverts they also get extra money. The more views the more money, and if u look at any auditor channel you will see they get so many more views for titles indicating a big argument, look at dj audits channel for example.

Sounds like they're crying out to have someone to stick a sign on their back saying "Don't feed the troll"...

Yes, the advise is to ignore them, or at least chat in a polite and benign way. Many employers will have received advice about site security and threats and there is a short training video available.

Social Media Auditors | Hostile Reconnaissance | NPSA

There have been stupid people since the dawn of time

They deliberately try and wind people up as they will get more views from that and therefore more money.
all the social media platforms have creator funds that pay out for views plus other sources of income like affiliate links, referral links in bio etc

We had a warning at the office a couple of times there were some outside. I was baffled by what they were doing.

They get paid when people (like you) watch their videos - so stop watching.