Global InformationRebel News information
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Type of site | Politics |
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| Available in | Canadian English |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario[1] |
| Owner | Ezra Levant |
| Founder(s) | Ezra Levant, Brian Lilley |
| CEO | Ezra Levant |
| Key people | Lawrence Solomon, Raheel Raza (Advisory Board) |
| URL | RebelNews.com |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 16 February 2015 |
| Current status | Active |
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Rebel News (also known as The Rebel Media and The Rebel) is a Canadian far-right[2] political and social commentary media website operated by Rebel News Network Ltd. It has been described as a "global platform" for the anti-Muslim ideology known as counter-jihad.[3][4] It was founded in February 2015 by former Sun News Network personalities Ezra Levant and Brian Lilley.
Rebel News broadcasts its content only on the internet and has been compared to Breitbart News of the US.[5][6][7][8] Rebel News has been described as being part of the alt-right movement.[9][10][11]
Former Sun News reporter Faith Goldy joined Rebel News after its launch,[12] but was fired for her coverage of the 2017 Charlottesville rally and for conducting an interview with The Daily Stormer.[13] A co-founder and two freelancers resigned in protest of the coverage.[14] Gavin McInnes, founder of the far-right neo-fascist[15][16][17] organization Proud Boys, was a contributor. McInnes departed in 2017, then temporarily rejoined the site for a period in 2019.[18][19] In the midst of the 2021 Canadian federal election, Justin Trudeau accused Rebel News of spreading misinformation, especially with regards to COVID-19 vaccines.[20][21][22] Rebel News has promoted climate change denial and oil sands extraction in Alberta.[23]
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- Perry, Barbara; Scrivens, Ryan (19 August 2019). Right-Wing Extremism in Canada. Springer International. p. 37. ISBN 978-3-030-25169-7. Retrieved 21 October 2020 – via Google Books.
In 2015, he established Rebel Media, a far-right outlet that regularly features global and domestic "stars" of the nationalist movement.
- Titley, Gavan (2 July 2020). "The distribution of nationalist and racist discourse" (PDF). Journal of Multicultural Discourses. 15 (3). Taylor & Francis: 7. doi:10.1080/17447143.2020.1780245. S2CID 221521303. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
Far-right Twitter accounts come and go, often generating significant traction without any obvious relation to organised movements. As a stage of his reinvention of self after the EDL, its leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon ('Tommy Robinson') reinvented himself as a journalist, working for the Canadian far-right media company Rebel Media.
- Mirrlees, Tanner (3 August 2018). "The Alt-right's Discourse on "Cultural Marxism": A Political Instrument of Intersectional Hate". Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice. 39 (1). Mount Saint Vincent University: 61. ISSN 1715-0698. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
The Rebel Media, a far-right news organization, published articles by Canadian alt-right propagandists such as: "Want to sop cultural Marxist indoctrination? Cut public funding of universities" (Nicholas 2017); "Social justice is socialism in disguise" (Goldy 2016); and "How progressives use our kids for Marxist social experiments" (Goldy 2017).
- Perry, Barbara; Mirrlees, Tanner; Scrivens, Ryan (27 February 2019). "The Dangers of Porous Borders". Journal of Hate Studies. 14 (1). Gonzaga University: 61. doi:10.33972/jhs.124. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
Far-right Canadian media outlets, for instance, have bombarded its subscribers with all kinds of pro-Trump, racist and xenophobic dialogue, both before and after Trump's victory. Rebel Media, a popular far-right online media platform run by Ezra Levant, a controversial Canadian far-right political activist, writer and broadcaster, has been an outright supporter of Trump, publishing countless extreme-right leaning articles on why to support him.
- Zhang, Xinyi; Davis, Mark (7 June 2022). "E-extremism: A conceptual framework for studying the online far right". New Media & Society. SAGE. doi:10.1177/14614448221098360. ISSN 1461-4448. S2CID 249482748. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
Beyond US-based far-right news websites such as Breitbart, Infowars and Epoch Times, other alternative online media outlets include Australia-based XYZ and The Unshackled, Canada-based Rebel News and UK-based Politicalite.com and PoliticalUK.co.uk, just to name a few, which operate as far-right metapolitical channels and counter-publics that strive to influence mainstream culture and discourse (Holt, 2019).
- Gilligan, Andrew (5 August 2018). "Tommy Robinson winds up bigots and the cash floods in". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
All four, including Robinson himself, were employees of The Rebel Media, a Toronto-based far-right website
- Scott, Mark (16 May 2017). "U.S. Far-Right Activists Promote Hacking Attack Against Macron". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- Craig, Sean (19 August 2017). "A fight over a four-bedroom house: The Rebel Media meltdown and the full recording at the centre of the controversy". Global News. Archived from the original on 3 September 2017. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- Perry, Barbara; Scrivens, Ryan (19 August 2019). Right-Wing Extremism in Canada. Springer International. p. 37. ISBN 978-3-030-25169-7. Retrieved 21 October 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ Warnica, Richard (19 August 2017). "Rebel without applause: How Ezra Levant built an extreme media juggernaut — and watched it all begin to unravel". National Post. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
- ^ Whyte, Lara (28 September 2019). "The women flying the flag for Generation Identity and far-right politics". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
The Rebel Media has more than one million subscribers on YouTube, and is often described as the home of an anti-Muslim ideology it calls "counter-jihad".
- ^ Mudde, Cas (25 October 2019). The Far Right Today. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-5095-3685-6. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ Austen, Ian (25 August 2017). "Canada Letter: Back at the NAFTA Table and Tundra Meltdowns". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ "'Your throat will be slit': Canadian's Muslim talk show in India triggers threats, a bounty on his head". National Post. 22 February 2017.
- ^ Stokel-Walker, Chris (8 February 2022). "The Alt-Right on Facebook Are Hijacking Canada's Trucker Blockade". Wired UK. ISSN 1357-0978. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
The theory, that the pandemic is a global conspiracy to allow world leaders to reset the planet, remained niche until picked up by Rebel News, a Canadian equivalent of Breitbart News.
- ^ Jason Markusoff (16 August 2017). "The Rebel's steady spiral downwards". Maclean's. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
- ^ Langlois, Ganaele; Coulter, Natalie; Elmer, Greg; McKelvey, Fenwick (9 December 2021). "View of Special Section: Alt-Rights in Canada". Canadian Journal of Communication. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
Key alt-right media players, such as Ezra Levant, moved to social media, where their online audience is comparable to those of legacy media such as CBC, CTV, and Global. Levant's network, Rebel News, has launched numerous alt-right figures, becoming an incubator for a certain kind of media celebrity status important to the alt-right globally.
- ^ Sainato, Michael (17 August 2017). "Trump Retweets Conspiracy Theorist Who Lost Security Clearance Because of Twitter". The New York Observer. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
In June 2017, he was fired from Rebel Media, a Canadian alt-right media outlet...
- ^ "Meet The Rebels". Rebel News. Archived from the original on 5 February 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- ^ Lett, Dan (19 August 2017). "Rebel Media's meltdown and the politics of hate". Winnipeg Free Press. Archived from the original on 20 August 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
- ^ "Tension between The Rebel and conservatives erupts anew". CBC News. Archived from the original on 19 September 2017. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- ^ Weill, Kelly (29 January 2019). "The Proud Boys Are Now Roger Stone's Personal Army". Archived from the original on 29 January 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ "3 arrested in NYC clashes following speech by leader of far-right Proud Boys group". Chicago Tribune. The Associated Press. Archived from the original on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
- ^ Mathias, Christopher (18 October 2018). "The Proud Boys, The GOP And 'The Fascist Creep'". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
- ^ "Gavin McInnes Hired By Conservative Canadian Network Rebel Media". Mediaite. 5 February 2019. Archived from the original on 7 February 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ "Founder Of SPLC-designated Hate Group Rejoins Rebel Media". 5 February 2019.
- ^ Fawcett, Max (10 September 2021). "An immaculate takedown of Rebel News". Canada's National Observer.
The reality is, organizations — organizations like yours — that continue to spread misinformation and disinformation on the science around vaccines … is part of why we're seeing such unfortunate anger and lack of understanding of basic science," he said. "Frankly, your — I won't call it a media organization — your group of individuals need to take accountability for some of the polarization that we're seeing in this country.
- ^ "Canada election: Trudeau says Rebel News needs to 'take accountability' for increasing polarization | Watch News Videos Online". Global News.
- ^ "Trudeau accuses far-right website of spreading vaccine misinformation". The Guardian. 9 September 2021.
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