Anti-Defamation League: “Holocaust Denial has Also Found A Home on Fringe Media-Hosting Platforms Like […] Rumble”

KDKA: McCormick Has Invested Up to $5 Million in the Social Media Platform Rumble, and Has Made at Least $100,000 With His Investment

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PENNSYLVANIA — In an interview with KDKA in Pittsburgh today, Connecticut hedge fund CEO and mega-millionaire David McCormick refused to pull his investments in Rumble, a social media website that platforms Holocaust denial and antisemitism. McCormick owns up to $5 million in the platform. 

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KDKA:

• Lauren Linder, KDKA: But financial disclosures by the Federal Election Commission reveal McCormick has invested up to $5 million in the social media platform Rumble, and has made at least $100,000 with his investment. According to the Anti-Defamation League, Rumble users are known to spew violent and conspiratorial content, including Holocaust denial, far-right extremism and antisemitic hate. McCormick acknowledged his involvement with the website.  

• McCormick: I did invest in that. […]

• Lauren Linder, KDKA: He would not say whether or not he would pull investments.

• McCormick: I’m not going to talk about my specific investments.

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• McCormick invested millions in Rumble, a “far-right web hosting platform that is a bastion for antisemitic hate speech.”His financial disclosures show that McCormick holds “between $1 million and $5 million of stock in Rumble Incorporated.”

• Associated Press: Rumble is a “haven for disinformation and extremism” that “has been criticized for allowing— and at times promoting — far-right extremism, bigotry, election disinformation and conspiracy theories.” 

• Rolling Stone: Rumble hosts “pro-Nazi content.” 

• Anti-Defamation League: 
• “Rumble and [other platform] Bitchute are video-sharing platforms filled with violent and conspiratorial content that act as alternatives to YouTube.”
• “Holocaust denial has also found a home on fringe media-hosting platforms like Bitchute and Rumble, where Holocaust denial videos are used to attract views and to convince audiences of a purported global effort by Jews, Zionists or the elite to support Israel, dominate public opinion and exert social control by limiting the topics open to free public discourse.”