MRC: YouTube alternative Rumble is gaining traction among more than just conservatives. The video-sharing platform just welcomed a diverse group of big name voices.
Rumble announced that “eight nationally recognized thought leaders” would be joining its platform: former congresswoman from Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard, journalist Glenn Greenwald, podcast host and commentator Bridget Phetasy, independent video creator Matt Orfalea, former Washington Examiner reporter Siraj Hashmi, writer and podcaster Mujahed Kobbe, writer Shant Mesrobian and writer Zaid Jilani. “These prominent new voices add to Rumble’s deep pool of content talent and further enhance the platform’s breadth and depth of offerings to our viewers,” the company wrote in a press release about the additions.
Gabbard is a former Democrat member of Congress who ran against now-President Joe Biden for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2020. Greenwald is an investigative journalist who previously worked for left-of-center outlets including The Guardian, and is well known for breaking a story that uncovered the U.S. National Security Agency was collecting the telephone records of tens-of-millions Americans. Mesrobian and Jilani both have written for progressive media outlets. MORE
I’m logged into Rumble accounts several times a day. Doesn’t seem to be afraid of anyone’s thoughts, or most importantly the truth. I go out of my way to avoid filtered youtube.
“So what’s it going to be, Towelie? Is it going to be subverted and neutered by moles from within, or be crushed by The Cartel?”
Towelie: “”I choose…I choose…BOTH!”
I’ve never considered Tulsi Gabbard a “thought leader”. She has said {some} things I agreed with, but nothing that knocked my sox off, maybe her platform here will change my mind.
But it is important to reiterate how essential it is for us all to read views outside our echo chamber. Our core beliefs should always be challenged and re-evaluated, scrutinized if nothing else than to fortify them and reassure us that they are inviolable and absolute.
Guys like Glen Greenwald, Michael Malice, Eric Weinstein, Jordan Person, lefties for sure but lefties that have thought a lot about what they are saying and have valuable insight into things that we should all care about.
I use Rumble (on ROKU) as much as possible. The search function is terrible. Hope that improves over time.
I like Rumble. I watch the doctors on this covid crap on Rumble. Conservatives are lucky to have sites like Rumble, Bitchute, and Gab.
And once it gets to be a viable alternative to YT, the left will pull the plug on it and we will be right back at square one…just like they did with Parler. These people have spent years layering the internet and supporting infrastructure so that they would have total control when the most needed it. Maybe that’s what Al Gore meant when he said he “invented the internet”.
To be honest, I don’t trust Rumble a whole lot more than I do
youtube.
I do like Bongino, I know some people don’t. He does promote the Rumble website alot during his podcast. It’s better than most of the other crap out there. The question that lingers with me is what exactly is a “thought leader”? That term is very Orwellian. I have the ability to think for myself, I do not need a thought leader to do it for me. Perhaps I’m reading too much into it, but that term does rankle me.