MFWitches

Avoid if scared of sweary women, politics & feminism. We run consumer boycotts to stop toxic media (#MurdochFreeWorld, #VileKyle etc). See website & let’s go.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

People often get in touch with MFW to ask how they can take part in our consumer boycotts. So here’s an explanation of what you can do, and why it matters.

The commitment we need (for people who want to make a difference) is to contact 1, 2, 5 or more advertisers from our data lists each week, telling them why you demand they stop funding the misogyny, hate and lies expressed by the media personality or program/channel you choose.

There are two ways to contact advertisers. You can use the data lists via our MFW website https://t.co/igA7ByRwpQ, or via our web-based app at https://t.co/WH8KAnLSxm. In either case, follow these instructions:

1. Click on https://t.co/R0rvvYshMI (#ToYourBrooms link on our sites) for all our #ToYourBrooms advertiser boycott campaigns. These target individuals, programs and/or media orgs which are the worst in terms of broadcast hate and lies. They currently include:

- #BinBen (Ben Fordham/2GB)

- #NewsCorpse (Rupert Murdoch’s papers and Sky News)

- #SquishSpotlight (Kerry Stokes’s Spotlight TV show)

- #TuckOff (Tucker Carlson) and

- #VileKyle (Kyle Sandilands/KiiSFM).

2. Click on https://t.co/o8gsgeBHAc for our #MurdochFreeWorld supplier campaign, which targets businesses which stock or supply Murdoch- or Stokes-owned content.

It’s easy to take part. Just find and click into on the hashtag campaign (as above) you prefer, and locate advertisers you currently use (or might use). Contact them via the email or social media details supplied. Tell them you’ll stop buying their products/services unless they stop funding the content you object to, and explain your specific objections. You can even tell them what they’re funding goes against their own Code of Conduct or Mission Statement (find these on their websites).

Don’t take no for an answer, don’t listen to them say they don’t control where their advertising goes (this is rubbish), and keep it up with more advertisers. But please: always be polite. Currently, a few thousand witches a week do this. But if it were ten or fifty thousand, advertisers would pull out a lot faster.

We also need financial support, preferably with a recurring donation of $5 or $10 per month, or more if funds allow. We can’t run our campaigns without the wherewithal to pay our staff who work very hard to compile and analyse huge amounts of data we then supply to you. If it matters to you to reform our media, please assist:
https://t.co/yZ0i3SfsTs
https://t.co/2cF0fnTuKE

Finally, since mass-reporting by the trolls who want media lies to prosper causes us to sometimes disappear from our platforms, follow us in as many places as possible:
MFW Coven: https://t.co/Df7GQiEF1f…
Insta: @MFWitches
Facebook: @MFWitches
Threads: @mfwitches

It’s a crucial time to get involved, since media lies are getting worse. They’re losing profits since more people see through their bullshit daily, and this causes them to publish for link clicks rather than truth. The only way to combat this is to show them they’ll lose more profit via losing advertisers unless they stop using outrage and deception to get attention.

Our motive isn’t to put these companies out of business or for journalists to lose their jobs. We just want the lies and lack of balance to stop. If Rupert Murdoch and other similar media outlets would choose to run their companies with relatively objective reporting, we’d quickly abandon our witchy campaigns.

What happens next, witches, is up to us all. If enough advertisers and suppliers pull out of supporting these awful companies, neither our politicians nor the media will fail to get the memo that we’re fucking tired of being lied to on a daily basis by journalists and companies who refuse to follow their own media codes. And they’ll quickly change.

Now’s the time for all of us to take a stand. We’re a collective of angry sweary witches who are determined to make a permanent difference.

And if we don’t do this, who fucking will?

Are you in?

#ToYourBrooms

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

Even the babies speak better English than she does …

[Toilet Paper Australia @toiletpaperaus1]

If you ever feel dumb, just remember that when Pauline Hanson said 871,000 people in Australia couldn’t speak English at all, she included 100,000 babies.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How in the goddamn fuck do we live on a planet where climbing the Empire State Building to kiss and unfurl a woke banner gets you handcuffs and multiple indictments but being a rapist, pedophile and criminal grifter gets you a job as President?

#NewsCorpse

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

We won’t stop till advertisers stop funding filth. Go to https://t.co/gefVqPNM7A to learn how to contact advertisers. Or go directly to FOE lists for ongoing campaigns here: https://t.co/Es49qK4TCo . Send all responses you get to [email protected].

Please also support our work to get rid of Vile Kyle: it’s a subscription to the future for the price of a coffee (or two) each month:
https://t.co/LES4fbWnAs

#ToYourBrooms

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[MFWitches @MFWitches]

The men are revolting, witches.

The rich white entitled men who thought they ruled the world and are now incandescently furious with a bunch of angry sweary women (and men) who’ve simply had enough of their lies, their hate, their misogyny, their racism, their outright fascism and their foul #PunchdownProfit business model which deliberately harms large groups of people for the sole purpose of enriching themselves and fucking over everyone else.

And nowhere was all this more obvious today than in Karl Stefanovic’s new podcast drop, in which this week he’s just interviewed … ah … himself … with the assistance of his supposed guest Piers Morgan, who also had a lot to say about the cancellation of the blokesy folkesy cohort they’re all embracing since women (and others) en masse objected to their decision to send us all back to the 1950s (or 1850s) without our consent.

Wanna tissue for your issue, guys?

And yes, of course Karl had a swipe at us witches. Calling us a “mob” (and not in a good way), and insisting that the bosses of the Australian media now only employ “beige personalities” because of the threat of advertiser boycotts:
“I don’t want to go into the legalities of it but again Pierce it’s like this is these mainstream media companies and I think Free to Air particularly… if the product is becoming beige because they’re so worried about blowback from advertisers or the whoever this mob is, that you end up on air with beige personalities … “
https://t.co/ww3OUYZbEl

Pig’s arse.

What none of these numpties get is we DON’T want beige or boring or poor broadcasting. Far from it. We just want broadcasting which doesn’t cause harm to us and to others. And NOT ONE of these disgraceful men or their bosses will address that issue: that the only way they know to make money is to make fun of or disadvantage or degrade or demean or objectify or incite violence towards people they should be helping and protecting.

Fuck sake.

If you want a transcript of most or all of the interview, here it is in all its excruciating glory:
https://t.co/07F5I6kAPQ

We won’t let them win, witches.

Despite that we’re necessarily extra-quiet this week because the abuse and threats directed at us have ramped up to the max and we’re dealing with huge amounts of hate and promises to shut us down or hurt us or even kill us, we won’t be stopped. We’ve done nothing wrong but stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves. We haven’t silenced anyone: in fact, they’re still talking their heads off on mega-yachts and in multi-million-dollar studios and they wouldn’t fucking shut up in a month of Sundays. We aren’t bullies, and we NEVER speak disrespectfully to anyone at any business we politely approach to inform them of what they’re funding (and what’s more, if those businesses didn’t AGREE with us that the content they’re funding is vile, they would never cancel their advertising). We don’t wish to cancel anything but hate speech, verbal violence and bigotry, and we will never, ever buy the “if you don’t like it don’t listen” argument because if that embarrassingly juvenile exhortation were true we’d be watching live porn during children’s viewing times on the basis that if we’re not the cohort meant to be watching at that time, we have no right to complain no matter what they broadcast.

What in the ever-loving fuck do these people WANT? (Actually don’t answer that, as we all know what they want but we will never permit them to have it.)

It’s our job to make sure they don’t get what they want, because what they want is to fuck us over and bugger the consequences.

So we will do our job for as long as we’re fucking able to.

We don’t have a choice.

But they do.

And if broadcasting content which doesn’t insult and attack others is “beige”, then not only are they shit broadcasters but here’s the thing: bring on the fucking beige.

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[MFWitches @MFWitches]

We won’t stop till advertisers stop funding filth. Go to https://t.co/gefVqPNM7A to learn how to contact advertisers. Or go directly to FOE lists for ongoing campaigns here: https://t.co/Es49qK4TCo . Send all responses you get to [email protected].

Please also support our work to get rid of Vile Kyle: it’s a subscription to the future for the price of a coffee (or two) each month:
https://t.co/LES4fbWnAs

#ToYourBrooms

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[MFWitches @MFWitches]

We already knew Karl Stefanovic would almost certainly be fired from his new job pairing up with Eddie McGuire on ARN Media, witches.

And we also knew it was all or nearly all because of us witches.

How did we know?

Because we’d already received aggrieved communications from ARN after we first posted about Karl and Eddie starting their bloke-fest Friday on ARN a few weeks ago, and we also knew they didn’t want MFW’s #KancelKarl campaign (which led to him being booted from the Today Show last week) to also target their new Eddie-and-Karl festival of bro.

As we said last week, we hadn’t yet decided whether or not to extend that campaign to the ARN show. But now, we don’t have to make that decision, since the point is moot.

Karl is kaput.

Here’s proof:
“It was not a hard decision for the company. Stefanovic’s own media venture, The Karl Stefanovic Show, had begun to increasingly cater for a One Nation-aligned audience, and the interview with Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, had caught the eye of activist group Mad F—king Witches. MFW declared they wanted to start a boycott campaign linked to Stefanovic. ARN last month agreed to pay more than $12 million to part ways with its former top breakfast host Kyle Sandilands, whose crude style of broadcasting had led to an MFW boycott that cost the company more than $26 million in advertising revenue.”
https://t.co/hQYIBys3Dl
https://t.co/ww3OUYZbEl

And yes, we’re glad.

Karl doesn’t deserve a mainstream media platform while he’s willing to engage in a love-fest with a known abuser and neo-Nazi, particularly as he didn’t even pretend to hold Tommy Robinson to account on any of his lies and hate. And even more so because of other bullshit he’d been spouting about Pete Evans, BRS and others.

There’s something else we want to say, too.

Which is that for the last fucking time: Karl didn’t plan any of these sackings. He didn’t want them to happen. He’s lost a shitload of money from being booted from at least two shows. He’s lost potential lucrative podcast sponsors, and the goodwill of hundreds if not thousands of people who thought he was a genial and uncomplicated media mate or contact. And he’s lost industry friends he desperately didn’t want to lose.

So why are people claiming this furore was orchestrated on his part?

Well, mainly to discredit us witches, of course. There are shitloads of people out there who don’t want to acknowledge our power or our influence, so would prefer to spread or believe rumours that Karl interviewed Robinson on purpose to get out of his Nine contract.

Yet there’s NO evidence to support those claims. Since there IS no evidence: they’re a load of fucking bollocks.

What really happened? It’s not difficult: Karl just got too big for his boots. Was enjoying new conversations and discussions with people like Hanson and Sandilands and Evans (among others), so thought he was untouchable because all those far-right dickstains around him were blowing smoke up his arse. Unlike his employer Nine, there was nobody to put the checks and balances on his behaviour needed, so he fell into the trap of thinking anything he did would be fine.

He didn’t do the research, and didn’t think anyone could harm his career.

And he was wrong. Simples.

Once again we’ll take this as another huge victory, witches. And once again we’ll thank this incredible community, who stand permanently ready to say enough is fucking-well ENOUGH.

Do we want to be the arbiters of media morals, ethics and decent behaviour, witches? No, no we certainly don’t. But as the mainstream media refuse to regulate themselves and continue to hero-worship the sad, stale older men who’ve had all the say for far, far too fucking long, there’s nobody but us to do this work and we will do it while it needs to be done.

Who’s in?

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[MFWitches @MFWitches]

Of course there could be both.

The point is that the fossil fuel billionaires use the media they own to distract people from the real problems and solutions.

You can’t talk about both until you solve the major problem: fossil fuels have to stay in the ground.

Is this hard to understand?

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live on a planet where countries who’ve just suffered the worst heat waves in their histories are now talking about installing air conditioning more widely instead of about locking up fossil fuel and media oligarch billionaires?

#NewsCorpse

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

There’s nothing the mainstream media won’t make the fault of women, even the murders of other women.

Here, @DailyMailAU publishes a piece claiming men marry “traditional” women because those in western countries are too assertive, too masculine, too overbearing, and too bossy … just two days after an Australian man literally murdered an Asian woman.

The implication is men go to Asia and unfortunately end up killing women there at least partly because western women won’t give them what they want.

They disgust us.

This is fully shit.

#WarOnWomen

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

@PaulSchleifer That’s easy: an Exxon of heatwaves.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Anyone who tries to argue climate change with you, just pull up this.

Not about no AC’s no more.

This is about future generations being able to grow food in europe or not.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

@kezza512 He didn’t get paid out his contract. That’s a lie.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live in a country where all the people now furiously upset that Karl Stefanovic got cancelled said not a single word when the same thing happened to Antoinette Lattouf and Grace Tame?

#NewsCorpse

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

@Ozzytourer @RitaTunstall We’ve blocked hundreds.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

@xskinn Blocked by him some years ago, no idea why as we’d never bothered to interact with his account. He’s scared of witches.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

Karl Stefanovic was sacked by Nine overnight, witches.

Here’s their statement:
“STATEMENT FROM NINE ON KARL STEFANOVIC
Attribute to Nine Entertainment:
Nine Entertainment and Karl Stefanovic have agreed that it is no longer possible for him to continue hosting Today at the same time as his independent podcast. While Karl and Nine had previously agreed he would leave Today at the end of this year, they have subsequently decided he will leave the Network immediately. Friday, June 26.”

And here’s Karl’s own video statement from London:
https://t.co/lNQcatGrmw

Poor diddums. That video proves (despite Karl’s little dance at the end) he didn’t want to be sacked and is devastated to FAFO that sucking up to violent neo-Nazi creeps doesn’t pay. The persistent rumour his departure from the Today show was orchestrated in-house by him was as ridiculous as it was wrong: no well-known media entity would blow up their whole life like that, in the process angering all the media executives and mates he’d spent decades building relationships with: particularly as Karl had just signed with ARN and no way would he have wanted to lose that gig as it seems likely he’ll do.

What’s more, Karl’s sooky begging for advertisers in the clip proves he’s concerned about his financial future and about how he’ll make his nasty podcast work. It seems clear Karl somehow just got wrapped up with too many cookers and dickheads like Hanson and Sandilands and Evans and Joyce and Robinson (among others), and in the fog of the hubris and totally overestimated power those shitty new buddies gave him, he forgot how much grace his employers would give him when it came to the crunch.

That might be the fastest campaign in our history, witches. Because despite all those bleating on today about free speech and cancel culture and Tommy is a hero and if you don’t like it don’t listen and who the fuck do you witches think you are, we drew a line in the fucking sand and said: not on our witchy watch.

And as always, all those who’ve written emails on past campaigns and listened to radio shows and boosted our work and (most importantly) funded us to do the crucial work Australia’s media industry and regulators and even governments have refused to do to prevent horrific harm and protect women and people in vulnerable groups they have a responsibility to care for are heroes and sheroes today.

We salute you, and we love you.

And sometimes - just sometimes - we get clear and incontrovertible evidence we’ve done the right thing.

One of those times, for us, is today. Since if Mark Latham and all his depraved shit-kicking toe-rag mates are having a big fucking go at us, we just know we’ve done something which badly needed doing.

Suck shit, Latham. And all your fucked-up mates now spending their worthless time either discrediting us witches or insulting us to the max. We see you. But we don’t give a fuck. Because WE know you’re standing up for thuggery and violence and racism and hate, and your statements (such as the one in the pic below) only confirm what kind of vicious, shameless arsebiscuits you fuckmaggots really are.

Today is a day to celebrate, witches. They can’t get rid of us, and they can’t make us wrong. The rise of the far-right neo-Nazis in this country won’t be tolerated, and this week us witches stood up en masse and clearly said so.

The fight goes on, and we will never give up.

And the pale stale males who thought they ran this country with impunity have learned yet another big lesson this week: don’t mess with the witches.
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We won’t stop till advertisers stop funding filth. Go to https://t.co/gefVqPNM7A to learn how to contact advertisers. Or go directly to FOE lists for ongoing campaigns here: https://t.co/Es49qK4TCo . Send all responses to [email protected].

Please also support our work: it’s a subscription to the future for the price of a coffee (or two) each month:
https://t.co/LES4fbWnAs

#ToYourBrooms

[Karl Stefanovic @karlstefanovic]

A message from Karl https://t.co/SHCSEXkWGn

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

We did not believe for a second Karl Stefanovic wanted to be sacked from the Today Show and found the whole premise ridiculous.

Apart from the legal stoush involved, no media “star” would want to be sacked and thus lose the support and goodwill of all their journo mates and bosses. What’s more, Karl has also almost certainly been relieved of his ARN radio job, which he would hate.

Those who jumped to such a silly conclusion should think more carefully about what they decide to say.

Karl was sacked mostly because of us witches. This was confirmed in a number of media reports today, such as this one: “Network insiders have told https://t.co/63c3HNHk8z Stefanovic's bosses, including Nine CEO Matt Stanton, managing director streaming and broadcast Amanda Laing, chief sales officer Matt James, news director Fiona Dear, morning television director Steve Burling and director of television Michael Healy - Stefanovic's greatest greatest defender and supporter - were engaged in crisis talks yesterday following threats from feminist activist group MFW.”

Those who think Stefanovic would deliberately cause huge headaches and his own alienation from people in the para above plus Michael Stephenson and others at ARN have rocks in their heads.

He didn’t want to go. We pushed him. End of.

#KancelKarl

[Gadget @Gadget440]

🚨 Karl Stefanovic has reportedly told family and friends that he is "saddened" and "shocked" over being sacked by Channel Nine over his Tommy Robinson podcast.

Many are skeptical that he was actually trying to get fired and paid out on purpose so he could be a podcast bro full time.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

Well, well, well, witches.

We’re having trouble keeping up with all the news today, but we’ve just heard Karl Stefanovic has been given a “please explain” by ARN management over his disgraceful interview with Tommy Robinson, and won’t be appearing on his new ARN radio show with Eddie McGuire tomorrow … and may not be on the show ever again:
“One of the risks to ARN is a campaign by the Mad F---ing Witches activist group, which targets conservative media outlets, to convince advertisers to boycott Gold and other ARN stations over Stefanovic’s appearance. The group did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Stefanovic was told this week by Nine executives they want him to step down as host of Nine’s morning Today show and end his employment with the network, according to a Wednesday evening report in Nine’s newspapers. A Nine spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.”
https://t.co/9j50ZzyFDj

Our spokeswoman has been asked a number of times by journos today if we intended to keep our new #KancelKarl campaign going since he was still part of ARN’s Friday afternoon broadcasting, and the honest answer she gave to all was “we don’t know”.

This was because after discussing the issue among our Admin team this morning, we knew we really, really didn’t want to include ARN Media in another campaign so soon after doing them so much damage because of Kyle’s filth. It just seemed like adding insult to injury to them after their management did (finally) do the right thing on Kyle. However, we also felt we may have had no choice but to continue the campaign while Karl was employed by any mainstream media outlet, so if his departure from ARN is permanent, it certainly saves us from some difficult decisions the next week or two.

Do we hope Karl has gone forever from ARN Media? Yes. Yes we do. Of course we do. As we’ve been saying in recent days, anyone who’d eagerly showcase someone like Robinson has no place in Australia’s mainstream media at all.

And we already knew ARN were concerned about MFW taking action on Karl and Eddie’s show since we posted on the possibility a few weeks ago, so they were well aware a potential new boycott was already on our radar.

And so, we all wait. We still haven’t had confirmation from Nine, and we’ll be waiting to hear what ARN’s final decision on Karl is, too.

As always, we’re here waiting and watching.

Because when it comes to the abhorrent men who use hate and harm to punch down on others for link clicks and profit, that’s what witches do.

And if you, too, want us to keep doing this crucial work, please support us to do it.

Are you in?
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We won’t stop till advertisers stop funding filth. Go to https://t.co/gefVqPNM7A to learn how to contact advertisers. Or go directly to FOE lists for ongoing campaigns here: https://t.co/Es49qK4TCo . Send all responses to [email protected].

Please also support our work: it’s a subscription to the future for the price of a coffee (or two) each month:
https://t.co/LES4fbWnAs

#ToYourBrooms