The Rise and Fall of the Rumble Platform

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Rumble is a platform that really takes its kind of right-wing turn around 2019 and into 2020 as you know there's this kind of desire on the right to have their own platforms. Over time they've tried to expand into this kind of group of people who say that they're on the left but actually repeat a lot ofright-wing talking points and conspiracy theories. They are trying to attract disaffected leftists or even people who like claim affiliation to with the left but maybe are arguably not left in practice so rumble is very explicitly given multi-million dollar deals to a lot of right- wingers.

Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss how the right-wing of the tech industry are funding media platforms like Rumble to reshape the political discourse and why they’re helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenge Joe Biden.

Jacob Silverman is a journalist and the co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. He’s also the host of The Naked Emperor on CBC Podcasts. You can check out Jacob’s Substack.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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