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The second Republican presidential debate will be broadcast Wednesday on Fox Business Network and Univision, but the exclusive online livestream will take place on Rumble, an alternative video-sharing platform that has been criticized for allowing— and at times promoting — far-right extremism, bigotry, election disinformation and conspiracy theories.

By bringing viewers to Rumble to watch the GOP debate, as it did with the first one last month, the Republican National Committee is driving potential voters to a site crawling with content that flouts the rules of more mainstream ones such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

Earlier this year, RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said using Rumble instead of YouTube as its livestreaming partner was a decision aimed toward " getting away from Big Tech.”

Asked about the criticism against the platform, the RNC said in an emailed statement that “hate, bigotry and violence is unfortunately prevalent on every social media platform, and the RNC condemns it entirely, but the RNC does not manage content or pages outside of our own.”

Rumble, founded in 2013, prides itself on being “immune to cancel culture.” Its website says “everyone benefits when we have access to more ideas, diverse opinions, and dialogue.”

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are intentionally making it difficult to see live. This way they can show you clips the next morning of only what they want you to see.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the real answer.

The others may be true, but the debate runners and the GOP party leaders know some crazy shit is going to be said at one point or another, and they want to be able to selectively present it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Its really tough for me to say this. I was born and raised conservative, i.e. republican. It wasnt until Trump became a serious candidate in 2016 that i started to question their motives. I still consider myself conservative, but i cant bring myself to agree with anything the gop has done in the last decade.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I knew it was Rumble before I even opened it.

What's fun is Sam Seder suggested mirroring The Majority Report on Rumble to find out how much money they would make from angry conservatives hate-watching.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

He absolutely should. After all they're "anti-cancel culture". So I'm sure they would love to have him on. And would not interfere in any way with rebroadcasting or monetization. Who're we kidding. Of course they would find some way to manipulate and push against speech they don't like. The people who cry about " cancel culture " the most. Are the ones that practice it the most. They just get incensed when they're on the other end.

And I think we can all rest pretty sure that most monetization doesn't come from advertising or views. But contracts pushed by wealthy investors with a particular interest in only pushing a few specific views. It's a disinformation service and nothing more.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Well every single GOP debate is itself a haven for disinformation and extremism, so I don't see how you could possibly be genuinely surprised that they'd partner with someone as despicable as themselves.

If anything, the real headline is "ABC still pretending that the GOP is a legitimate political party rather than a fascist movement that must be stopped by any means necessary"

A bit too long for a headline, I admit, but completely accurate.

[–] starrox 16 points 1 year ago

A case of "knowing your audience". Better host your amoral and unethical content on platforms where it doesnt get ripped apart by the more educated majority.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I love that the font for “democracy” looks so much like the game Monopoly’s title font.

Bunch of people all waiting to fuck the country over to control all the money.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Sounds to me like they've found the perfect partner.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not really shocking to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re trying to build a shit tier system for racists and conservative degenerates.

That system consists of:

  1. Private equity
  2. Kick
  3. Rumble
  4. X
  5. Truth Social
  6. Facebook
  7. Reddit
  8. Charter Schools
  9. Mega Churches
  10. Anything off of the I-10 from coast to coast.

I would say it’s going to fail but most are hanging on with stolen or subsidized cash or tax dollars from the PPP.

As you can see most of the shit comes from Private Equity scumbags and maybe $750M went to degenerate churches and idk but a lot goes to sub par degenerate Charter Schools to try and pump out kids to further ruin society.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Reddit? Reddit is overwhelmingly liberal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I remember just after trump folks talking like trump was just an outlier and the republicans are still the same but its obviously not true with things like this. The whole party just keeps trying to one up themselves with nastiness and the whole trend is a lower and lower bar in all things (except tax cuts for the wealthy. on that they are rock solid).

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You never see hexbear users in these threads talking about how conservatives are the enemies of progress and to nuke the west. Just sayin'

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AFAIK hexbear isn’t federated with lemmy.world, so no wonder they aren’t here

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And nothing of value was lost