Rumble, a YouTube rival popular with conservatives, will pay creators who 'challenge the status quo'

[brooklynite]

Washington Post

A fast-growing YouTube rival popular with conservative influencers has a new strategy to expand its online audience: Paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to well-known media personalities it says work to “challenge the status quo.”

The Toronto-based upstart Rumble said Thursday it has struck deals with former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the journalist firebrand Glenn Greenwald and others who had committed to posting their videos first to the site.

Rumble has emerged over the last year as one of the most prominent video sites for right-wing viewers and provocateurs, and it is seeking to bolster its image as a new online home for those who claim they’ve been censored by Big Tech.

The site bans racism and hate speech but has contrasted itself with the Google-owned YouTube by refusing to remove “medical misinformation,” including those casting doubt on vaccines during a pandemic that is surging in many states and has killed more than 4 million people around the world.

[NCDem47]

1. Just make shit up and get rewarded.

The assulat on truth and accuracy continues. I guess the Right and authoritarians want to flood the zone so everybody questions/distrusts EVERYTHING all the damn time.

Good Lord what is this world coming to?

[AllaN01Bear]

2. if being censored means being kicked off becaues of rude . hurtfull ,

hateful and speach to overthrow the us govt so be it . buy buy .

[JHB]

3. The conservative status quo is unbridled foam

Are they going to pay for rational discourse? Oh, wait, not if they're paying Gabbard and Spleenwald.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Who's funding it?

I'm thinking this would be the perfect inflection point for Russian mis/dis-information.

[Generic Other]

5. Russian troll farms will love this

A new disinformation channel.