Rumble is the official streaming partner of a republican presidential primary debate that i believe is next month in august so it'll be just interesting to see how that's presented and handled. rumble has been accused of faking its audience numbers or using a lot of kind of fake traffic like malware driven traffic. Steven crowder had millions of viewers on youtube he was supposedly had a fifty million dollar offer from the daily wire and turned it down who knows if that was all made up he went to rumble and the numbers aren't very good.
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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