Creator and lawyer Viva Frei, who has gained a strong following on the growing alt-tech platform Rumble and its sister platform Locals, has said that he’s “about one millimeter away from suing” Canadian news network CTV, its investigative news and documentary program W5, and host Kevin Newman after W5 broadcast what Viva Frei described as a “dishonest hit piece that tried to paint Rumble like some form of alt-right platform where people go to spew disinformation and hatred”.
The W5 show, which featured an interview with Viva Frei, branded Rumble as “the Canadian-made social media darling of the political right” and claimed that “conspiracy theories about the election are thriving on Rumble”. It also complained that Rumble was hosting several creators that have been censored by other Big Tech platforms and claimed that Rumble was “staking out territory in a section of the internet with fewer boundaries and less concern about where it may be leading us”.
In the interview with Viva Frei, Newman cherry-picked a single comment from the tens of thousands of user comments on Viva Frei’s Rumble channel, claimed that this comment was “clearly inciting violence”, framed it as being “inside the Rumble ecosystem”, and suggested that V...
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