House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Makes Rumble his Preferred Platform

BY PR Newswire— 8:00 AM ET 01/19/2022

Brilliant move choosing Devin Nunes as CEO of DWAC, we all know section 230 is not going to be amended, or if amended it won't be much, because too many politicians get funds from social media companies. Rand Paul was the first on Rumble

Note: McCarthy didn't commit to not using youtube!

TORONTO, Jan. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – Rumble is proud to announce that U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is making Rumble his preferred platform with exclusive content. McCarthy will use Rumble to make important announcements while engaging with his constituents and the American people on pressing political issues.

"Congressman McCarthy has already gained nearly ten thousand followers since joining Rumble," said Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski ahead of the announcement. "His choice to use Rumble as his preferred platform shows how we have rapidly become an important platform for America's political leaders."

"Now more than ever, freedom-minded Americans across the country find themselves looking for a platform to uninhibitedly share ideas and content," McCarthy said. "On Rumble, I, along with every other user, can disseminate information, learn new things, and share unique ideas without fear of being censored or deplatformed. That is how it should be in America."

McCarthy is hosting multiple live streams this week, including today and tomorrow, as he introduces himself to the Rumble community.

Rumble is a high-growth neutral video platform that is creating the rails and independent infrastructure designed to be immune to cancel culture. Rumble's mission is to restore the Internet to its roots by making it free and open once again. Additionally, the company announced in December 2021 the execution of a definitive business combination agreement with CF Acquisition Corp. VI ( CFVI) . See the announcement here: https://corp.rumble.com

You can find the official Kevin McCarthy video channel here: https://rumble.com/c/RepKevinMcCarthy

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Video platform Rumble acquires stake in payment processor Parallel Economy

BY Reuters

— 3:57 PM ET 01/18/2022 By Helen Coster

NEW YORK, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Rumble Inc, a YouTube-style website popular among U.S. conservatives, has acquired a stake in payment processor Parallel Economy, the companies said on Tuesday, as a cottage tech industry evolves to oppose so-called cancel culture online.

After the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, tech companies such as PayPal Holdings Inc ( PYPL) and Twitter Inc ( TWTR) distanced themselves from, and took action against, those who encouraged or engaged in violence in the Capitol. Twitter Inc ( TWTR) and Facebook banned former U.S. President Donald Trump, and major service providers cut off right-wing social media platform Parler, accusing it of failing to police violent content related to the attack.

In response, technology firms, including a forthcoming venture from Trump, have sprung up to provide what their founders and users see as a protected space for free speech online. These companies are seeking to work together across services like distribution and payment, bypassing established tech players.

Parallel Economy is the latest venture from Jeffrey Wernick, an investor whose portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber and Parler; and Dan Bongino, a fellow Parler investor and conservative host of a nationally syndicated radio show, podcast and Fox News program.

Parallel Economy functions as an alternative to Stripe, a U.S. technology startup valued at $95 billion in March. Users can transfer money from their bank account into a creator's account with a credit or debit card.

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Parallel Economy provides Rumble content creators with the assurance that they can still transact with their supporters if their statements are deemed objectionable by other tech companies.

In exchange for an equity stake in Wernick and Bongino's holding company, Rumble will make Parallel Economy the preferred payment processor for its users.

Top-trending videos on Rumble include those from Bongino and former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon. In December Trump's media venture, Trump Media and Technology Group, said Rumble will deliver video and streaming for TRUTH Social, the venture's forthcoming social media app. (Reporting by Helen Coster in New York; Editing by Richard Chang)

Rumble Moves a Significant Portion of Its Ad Inventory to its own Advertising Center

BY PR Newswire— 10:00 AM ET 01/04/2022

Cool they are making themselves impenetrable from cancel culture!

TORONTO, Jan. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – Today, the video platform Rumble announced that a significant portion of its advertising inventory is being deployed through an alpha version of its advertising marketplace instead of public ad exchanges. The company will roll out the marketplace in stages during the course of 2022. Eventually, all ads on Rumble's platform will be served through Rumble's own advertising system. The advertising marketplace will provide a real alternative to the current advertising eco-system by including real-time bidding, extensive targeting, and the ability for publishers to participate and list their websites in the exchange.

"Current exchanges are opaque, they don't let advertisers choose where to advertise, and they are enormously susceptible to cancel culture pressure" says CEO Chris Pavlovski. "We want to build a transparent advertising eco-system for creators, publishers, and advertisers that is immune to cancel culture."

Multiple advertisers are already running ads through the new system, and Rumble anticipates opening the marketplace up to more advertisers by Q2 2022.

Rumble is a high-growth neutral video platform that is creating the rails and independent infrastructure designed to be immune to cancel culture. Rumble's mission is to restore the internet to its roots by making it free and open once again. The company recently announced the execution of a definitive business combination agreement with CF Acquisition Corp. VI ( CFVI) . See the announcement here: https://corp.rumble.com

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‘IF I DIE, I DIE’ Meat Loaf was ‘scared to death’ of Covid but said he’d ‘rather die’ than face lockdown months before ‘dying of virus’

Katie Davis 10:19 ET, Jan 21 2022Updated: 11:04 ET, Jan 21 2022

MEAT Loaf said he was "scared to death" of Covid but would "rather die" than face lockdown - just months before reportedly dying from the virus.

The singing sensation, 74, passed away on Thursday night after it's reported he cancelled a business dinner earlier this week as he fell "seriously ill" with Covid.

Meat Loaf died on Thursday at the age of 74

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The singer previously spoke out about coronavirus

It is unclear whether Meat Loaf was vaccinated (this means he was vaccinated) - but just months before his death he declared "if I die, I die - I'm not going to be controlled" when discussing the virus.

In the same interview - published in August last year after people worldwide had endured months of draconian rules and lockdowns - Meat Loaf, who suffered from asthma, also labelled face masks a "nuisance" and said he was happy to "hug people in the middle of Covid".

"You're not afraid (of Covid)?," a reporter from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette asked the rocker.

He replied: "Oh, I’m scared to death! You kidding me? But I'm sorry, I understood stopping life for a little while, but they cannot continue to stop life because of politics. And right now they're stopping because of politics.

"And on CNN last night, it finally came out that the masks we’re all wearing are useless. But I've known that for six months. They don't do anything. They don't stop you from getting Covid. They're just a nuisance and make your nose itch and make it so you can't breathe."

After the interviewer said: "We're being controlled by everybody", he replied: "Yeah, I know. But not me. If I die, I die, but I'm not going to be controlled."

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