Sleeping Giants

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<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">Sleeping Giants is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_activism" class="mw-redirect" title="Social media activism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">social media activism</a> organization aiming to persuade companies to remove <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising" title="Advertising" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">ads</a> from certain news outlets. The campaign started in November 2016,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-CNET-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a> shortly after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a>'s victory in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,2016" class="mw-redirect" title="United States presidential election, 2016" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">2016 United States presidential election</a>, with the launch of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Twitter</a> account aiming to boycott <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart_News" title="Breitbart News" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Breitbart News</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-TheNation-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a> The first tweet targeted personal finance company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoFi" title="SoFi" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">SoFi</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-CNET-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a> Most tweets on the account are messages to companies advertising on Breitbart—of these, most are not from the account itself, but are retweets of messages.The campaign operated entirely anonymously until July 2018, when advertising industry professional Matt Rivitz confirmed he was the group's founder, after he was identified by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Caller" title="The Daily Caller" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Daily Caller</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#Campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Campaign</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#Other_campaigns" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Other campaigns</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Campaign</h2>The organization primarily operates from its Twitter account, and also has a Facebook account. It has regional Twitter accounts for Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.As of February 2017, 820 companies had joined the campaign and stopped advertising on Breitbart News, according to statistics provided by the organization.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-CNET-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> By May 2017, thousands of advertisers had stopped advertising with Breitbart.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-TheNation-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a>The list of advertisers includes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T" title="AT&T" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">AT&T</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg%27s" title="Kellogg's" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Kellogg's</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW" title="BMW" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">BMW</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc." title="Visa Inc." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Visa</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk" title="Autodesk" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Autodesk</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo" title="Lenovo" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Lenovo</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Inc." title="HP Inc." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">HP Inc.</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimeo" title="Vimeo" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Vimeo</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Telekom" title="Deutsche Telekom" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Deutsche Telekom</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyft" title="Lyft" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Lyft</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allstate" title="Allstate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Allstate</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nest_Labs" title="Nest Labs" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Nest</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warby_Parker" title="Warby Parker" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Warby Parker</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-CNET-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-WSJ-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Canada" title="Government of Canada" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Canadian government</a> also stopped advertising on Breitbart News after declaring that its contents "did not align with the Government’s Code of Value and Ethics". Sleeping Giants' strategy combines traditional approaches to pressure advertisers with direct online activism, aiming to recruit and mobilize a large population of social media users. According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate(magazine)" title="Slate (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Slate</a>, Sleeping Giants' strategy is similar to the one adopted in 2014 by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy" title="Gamergate controversy" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Gamergate</a> movement against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawker_Media" title="Gawker Media" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Gawker Media</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a>Breitbart News responded to the positive response to the initiative by Kellogg's with a campaign to boycott its products.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-WSJ-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Other campaigns[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sleeping_Giants&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Other campaigns" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Sleeping Giants was involved in the campaign pressuring advertisers to drop <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O%27Reilly_Factor" title="The O'Reilly Factor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The O'Reilly Factor</a> after the discovery of five <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment" title="Sexual harassment" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">sexual harassment</a> settlements by host <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_O%27Reilly(political_commentator)" title="Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Bill O'Reilly</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Fox News</a>, which resulted in the show's cancellation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[10]</a>Since May 2017, the Canadian section has used the same methods to persuade advertisers to remove ads from the Canadian conservative news outlet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media" title="The Rebel Media" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">The Rebel Media</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a>The French section also campaigns in a similar manner with regard to the French far-right website <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_voltaire(website)" title="Boulevard voltaire (website)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Boulevard Voltaire</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">See also[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sleeping_Giants&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229.5%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%2300528c%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Funding_Hate" title="Stop Funding Hate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stop Funding Hate</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_NRA_boycott" title="2018 NRA boycott" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2018 NRA boycott</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sleeping_Giants&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="column-width: 30em;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-CNET-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants#cite_ref-CNET_1-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; 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It was founded in February 2015 by former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_News_Network" title="Sun News Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sun News Network</a> personalities <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Levant" title="Ezra Levant" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ezra Levant</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Lilley" title="Brian Lilley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brian Lilley</a>. It has been described as a "global platform" for the anti-Muslim ideology known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-jihad" title="Counter-jihad" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">counter-jihad</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-:0-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a>Former Sun News reporter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Goldy" title="Faith Goldy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Faith Goldy</a> later joined the outlet.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes" title="Gavin McInnes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gavin McInnes</a>, founder of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right" class="mw-redirect" title="Far-right" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">far-right</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-fascist" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-fascist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">neo-fascist</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a> organization <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys" title="Proud Boys" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Proud Boys</a>, was also a contributor. Lilley, Goldy, and McInnes have all since left the project.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a> In February 2019, after suing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center" title="Southern Poverty Law Center" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> for allegedly damaging his reputation and career prospect by characterizing the Proud Boys as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_group" title="Hate group" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">hate group</a>, McInnes announced that he is once again hired by the media group.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-mediaite_2019-02-05-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a>The Rebel Media fired Faith Goldy for her prominent coverage of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Unite_the_Right_rally" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 Unite the Right rally" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2017 Unite the Right rally</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville,Virginia" title="Charlottesville, Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charlottesville, Virginia</a>, and her interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer" title="The Daily Stormer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Daily Stormer</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-Lett2017-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a> A co-founder and two freelancers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#Blowback_over_coverage_of_the_Unite_the_Right_Rally" title="The Rebel Media" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">resigned in protest of the coverage</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-cbc.ca-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a>The Rebel Media broadcasts its content on the Rebel Media website and its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">YouTube</a> channel, which previously peaked on 16 August 2017, at 873,800 subscribers, however with the August departures, it had fallen to a minimum of 842,200 as of 31 August. In September–October 2017 the channel resumed its growth. On 15 August 2018, it had over one million subscribers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a>The Rebel Media, often cast as Canada's version of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart_News" title="Breitbart News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Breitbart News</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a> has been described as being part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right" title="Alt-right" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">alt-right</a> movement,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a> although it rejected the term after the Charlottesville rally.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox" style="cursor: pointer;" /></div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#History" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1History</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#2015%E2%80%932017" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.12015–2017</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#Blowback_over_coverage_of_the_Unite_the_Right_Rally" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.2Blowback over coverage of the Unite the Right Rally</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#Boycott_by_the_Conservative_Party_of_Canada" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.3Boycott by the Conservative Party of Canada</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#Advertiser_boycott" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.4Advertiser boycott</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#Rebel_Freedom_Fund" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.5Rebel Freedom Fund</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#Notable_contributors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Notable contributors</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#UK_contributors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1UK contributors</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#Former_contributors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Former contributors</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height">History</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">2015–2017</h3>The Rebel Media was formed by Levant and Lilley following the closure of the Sun News Network. Levant said that his online production would be unencumbered by the regulatory and distribution difficulties faced by Sun News Network and that its lower production costs would make it more viable.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a> Levant has cited <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart_News" title="Breitbart News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Breitbart</a>, the American far-right news hub, as an inspiration.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-:2-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a> A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdfunding" title="Crowdfunding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">crowdfunding</a> campaign raised roughly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_dollar" title="Canadian dollar" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">$</a>100,000 for the project.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a> The site soon attracted a number of other former Sun News Network personalities such as David Menzies, Paige MacPherson, Faith Goldy, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore(environmentalist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Patrick Moore (environmentalist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Patrick Moore</a> and, briefly, Michael Coren.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a>In the summer of 2015, the channel, led by Levant, launched a campaign to boycott <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons" title="Tim Hortons" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tim Hortons</a>, a chain of Canadian coffee shops, after it rejected in-store ads from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enbridge" title="Enbridge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Enbridge</a> due to complaints from customers opposed to the oil pipeline projects being promoted by the ads.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a>In early 2016, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alberta</a> government banned The Rebel Media's correspondents from press briefings on the grounds that, because Ezra Levant had testified in court in 2014 that he was a columnist or commentator rather than a reporter, none of his current correspondents could be considered to be journalists. On 17 February 2016, the government admitted that it made a mistake and said that it would allow The Rebel Media correspondents into press briefings.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canadian_Association_of_Journalists" class="mw-redirect" title="The Canadian Association of Journalists" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Canadian Association of Journalists</a> supported preventing government from choosing journalism coverage."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a>In late 2016, The Rebel Media advocated for accreditation by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to permit its access as journalists to their event. The Rebel Media had previously published articles claiming that the public <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial" title="Climate change denial" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">is being deceived about climate change</a>.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]Rebel Media did receive support from the federal Canadian government and three journalism organizations and eventually was granted access by the UN.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a>Following the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting" title="Quebec City mosque shooting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Quebec City mosque shooting</a> on 29 January 2017, Rebel promoted a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conspiracy theory</a> that the shooting was perpetrated by Muslims.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a> In 2017, Rebel Media hired as its British correspondent far-right activist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson(activist)" title="Tommy Robinson (activist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tommy Robinson</a>, founder of the avowedly anti-Islamic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Defence_League" title="English Defence League" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">English Defence League</a>. Robinson was convicted of mortgage fraud and using a friend's passport to enter the US.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a>In March 2017, one of their correspondents, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes" title="Gavin McInnes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gavin McInnes</a>, made controversial comments defending <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_deniers" class="mw-redirect" title="Holocaust deniers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Holocaust deniers</a>, accused the Jews of being responsible for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor" title="Holodomor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Holodomor</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles" title="Treaty of Versailles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Treaty of Versailles</a>, and said he was "becoming anti-Semitic". He later said his comments were taken out of context.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a> McInnes also produced a video for Rebel called "Ten Things I Hate about Jews", later retitled "Ten Things I Hate About Israel".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a>During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_presidential_election,2017" class="mw-redirect" title="French presidential election, 2017" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2017 French Presidential Election</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Posobiec" title="Jack Posobiec" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jack Posobiec</a>, The Rebel Media's Washington, D.C. bureau chief, supported far right leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Le_Pen" title="Marine Le Pen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Marine Le Pen</a> and played a role in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Macron_e-mail_leaks" title="2017 Macron e-mail leaks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2017 Macron e-mail leaks</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Southern" title="Lauren Southern" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lauren Southern</a> left the organization in March 2017.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Blowback over coverage of the Unite the Right Rally</h3>Co-founder Brian Lilley quit the Rebel on 12 August 2017, following the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Unite_the_Right_rally" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 Unite the Right rally" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2017 Unite the Right rally</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville,Virginia" title="Charlottesville, Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charlottesville, Virginia</a>, writing, "What anyone from The Rebel was doing at a so-called 'unite the right' rally that was really an anti-Semitic white power rally is beyond me. Especially not a rally dedicated to keeping up a statue of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E.Lee" title="Robert E. Lee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert E. Lee</a>, a man that whatever else he stood for, also fought on the wrong side of history and the wrong side of America’s bloodiest conflict." Lilley accused The Rebel of exhibiting a "lack of editorial and behavioural judgment that left unchecked will destroy it and those around it."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-:0-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a>Freelancers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kay" title="Barbara Kay" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barbara Kay</a> and John Robson also quit the Rebel, and the company was denounced by Conservative MP <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chong" title="Michael Chong" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Chong</a> and Alberta politician Doug Schweitzer of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Conservative_Party" title="United Conservative Party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United Conservative Party</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-cbc.ca-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a>Chong, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Alexander(politician)" title="Chris Alexander (politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chris Alexander</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-cbc.ca-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kent" title="Peter Kent" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Peter Kent</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Raitt" title="Lisa Raitt" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lisa Raitt</a>, and former interim leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rona_Ambrose" title="Rona Ambrose" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rona Ambrose</a> had previously disavowed the site.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jean" title="Brian Jean" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brian Jean</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Kenney" title="Jason Kenney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jason Kenney</a>, and Doug Schweitzer, who are running for the leadership of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Conservative_Party" title="United Conservative Party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United Conservative Party</a> of Alberta, have condemned the Rebel and said they will no longer grant interviews to the company.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Goldy" title="Faith Goldy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Faith Goldy</a>, a former journalist and online show host of the Rebel, was fired on 17 August 2017, for her participation in a podcast associated with The Daily Stormer.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[49]</a> In the course of reporting on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Unite_the_Right_rally" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 Unite the Right rally" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2017 Unite the Right rally</a> in Charlottesville, Goldy argued that they suggested a wider "rising white racial consciousness" in America and characterizing a manifesto by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">white supremacist</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B.Spencer" title="Richard B. Spencer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Spencer</a> that called for organizing states along racial lines as "robust" and "well thought-out."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-Lett2017-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes" title="Gavin McInnes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gavin McInnes</a> left the Rebel at the end of August 2017. Levant wrote “We tried to keep him, but he was lured away by a major competitor that we just couldn’t outbid" in an email to the independent news site <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadaland" title="Canadaland" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Canadaland</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-goldypost-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a> In February 2019, after suing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center" title="Southern Poverty Law Center" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> for allegedly damaging his reputation and career prospect by characterizing the Proud Boys as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_group" title="Hate group" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">hate group</a>, McInnes announced that he is once again hired by the media group.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-mediaite_2019-02-05-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a>British contributor Caolan Robertson no longer works for the Rebel.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-goldypost-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a> Robertson claims he was fired for "knowing too much" about the Rebel's finances, claiming the company dishonestly solicited donations for projects that were already funded and concealing how that money was spent.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-goldypost-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a> He also claimed that Southern was fired for refusing to tape a fundraising appeal for the Rebel's Israel trip after fundraising targets had already been met. Robertson also played audio of Levant offering him thousands of dollars of what Levant himself called "hush money". Levant denies these allegations and says he will present evidence opposing this in court, claiming that he was being "blackmailed" by Robertson and his partner.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-globalnews.ca-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[52]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[53]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a> Levant has since briefly talked about The Rebel's finances in his online show and released a summary on The Rebel's website.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[55]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[56]</a> It was reported that person that negotiated the settlement is the former director of communication for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kory_Teneycke" title="Kory Teneycke" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kory Teneycke</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[57]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Boycott by the Conservative Party of Canada</h3>During the 2017 Conservative Party leadership race, many contenders, including the eventual leadership winner <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Scheer" title="Andrew Scheer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Andrew Scheer</a>, gave interviews to the outlet.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-:1-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a>After the 2017 Conservative Party leadership race, it was revealed that Scheer's campaign manager Hamish Marshall's IT firm Torch provided IT services to The Rebel Media. In 2015, Marshall told the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Observer(Canada)" title="National Observer (Canada)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Observer,</a> that he was only involved in the business side of the Rebel.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-:3-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[59]</a> Marshall explained to that he had left the Rebel after the leadership race ended to avoid a conflict of interest.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[60]</a> In September 2017 Marshall's name was removed from the list of directors of The Rebel Media on the federal government's online registry of corporate information.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-:3-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[59]</a> On 16 October 2017, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Globe_and_Mail" title="The Globe and Mail" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Globe and Mail</a> asked Scheer if he knew that Hamish Marshall shared office space with the Rebel during the leadership campaign. Scheer replied that he did not ask Mashall about his firm's many clients. Later, a spokesperson clarified that Scheer did not know the specifics of the arrangement. Levant explained that Marshall's IT firm Torch provided client services for the Rebel.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-61" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[61]</a> A 2017 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Post" title="National Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Post</a> article argued that Marshall implemented the Rebel donation system.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-:2-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a> Scheer told <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclean%27s" title="Maclean's" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maclean's</a> in 2018, that Marshall past relationship with the Rebel should not be conflated with his selection as campaign chair.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[62]</a>Scheer denounced the outlet due to its coverage of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally" title="Unite the Right rally" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Unite the Right rally</a>;,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-63" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[63]</a> and stated that he would stop doing interviews with The Rebel Media until its “editorial directions" changed.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-goldypost-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-:1-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a> The day after Scheer stated that he would not be granting interview with the Rebel going forward in an interview with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Post" title="National Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Post</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-64" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[64]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Advertiser boycott</h3>Beginning in May 2017, the Rebel was the target of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Advertiser_boycott" title="YouTube" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">boycott</a> campaign by the social media activist group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giants" title="Sleeping Giants" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sleeping Giants</a> whereby advertisers were pressured to withdraw their adverts from The Rebel Media's YouTube channel and website. Within a three-month period in 2017, the activist group claimed that the Rebel had lost approximately 300 advertisers, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCM(ice_hockey)" title="CCM (ice hockey)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CCM Hockey</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Equipment_Co-op" title="Mountain Equipment Co-op" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mountain Equipment Co-op</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lobster" title="Red Lobster" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Red Lobster</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reitmans" title="Reitmans" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Reitmans</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_Books" title="Penguin Books" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Penguin Books</a> Canada, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen" title="Volkswagen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Volkswagen</a> Canada and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_Bank" title="Tangerine Bank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tangerine Bank</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-65" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[65]</a> along with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PetSmart" title="PetSmart" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">PetSmart</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" title="Hudson's Bay Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hudson's Bay Company</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Canada" title="General Motors Canada" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">General Motors Canada</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mint" title="Royal Canadian Mint" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Royal Canadian Mint</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia_Liquor_Corporation" title="Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa" title="Ottawa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ottawa</a>Tourism, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Airlines" title="Porter Airlines" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Porter Airlines</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistler_Blackcomb" title="Whistler Blackcomb" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Whistler Blackcomb</a> ski resort.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[66]</a>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Edmonton" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Edmonton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">City of Edmonton</a> withdrew from city advertisements after complaints on social media about the controversial nature of Levant's comments. According to Councilor Oshry, the city would have made this decision regardless of political leanings, because of controversial articles.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-67" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[67]</a>Another activist group, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_not_Hate" title="Hope not Hate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hope not Hate</a>, pressured <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Cruise_Lines" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian Cruise Lines" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Norwegian Cruise Lines</a> into cancelling a scheduled Caribbean cruise which was to feature talks by The Rebel Media personalities, many of whom have since left the media website.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-goldypost-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Rebel Freedom Fund</h3>In December 2017 Wells Asset Management announced the Rebel Freedom Fund, allowing investors to fund Levant's film and video projects, offering an expected 4.5% return.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-rff-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a> This attracted news coverage the following February in advance of the fund's ostensible 1 March opening date, generally negative; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoneySense" title="MoneySense" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">MoneySense</a>, for example, stated that "This one carries a lot of risk and doesn’t clear the MoneySense bar for appropriate retirement investment risk, whatever the political orientation."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-MS.rebel-69" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[69]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-70" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[70]</a> In June, however, Wells announced that it was shutting down all its funds, and when queried by a reporter from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclean%27s" title="Maclean's" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maclean's</a>, stated that the Rebel Freedom Fund had never launched.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-71" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[71]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height">Notable contributors</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Levant" title="Ezra Levant" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ezra Levant</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rob_Shimshock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rob Shimshock (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rob Shimshock</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes" title="Gavin McInnes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gavin McInnes</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-mediaite_2019-02-05-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">UK contributors</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Buckby" title="Jack Buckby" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jack Buckby</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Atkinson" title="Janice Atkinson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Janice Atkinson</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height">Former contributors</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanveer_Ahmed(psychiatrist)" title="Tanveer Ahmed (psychiatrist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tanveer Ahmed</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Coren" title="Michael Coren" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Coren</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-72" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[72]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Duhaime" title="Éric Duhaime" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Éric Duhaime</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Goldy" title="Faith Goldy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Faith Goldy</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-73" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[73]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-goldypost-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Gorka" title="Sebastian Gorka" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sebastian Gorka</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-Canadaland_Hopkins-74" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[74]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Hopkins" title="Katie Hopkins" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Katie Hopkins</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-Canadaland_Hopkins-74" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[74]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kay" title="Barbara Kay" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barbara Kay</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-75" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[75]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-goldypost-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Latham" title="Mark Latham" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mark Latham</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Lehmann" title="Claire Lehmann" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Claire Lehmann</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-76" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[76]</a> – founder/editor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quillette" title="Quillette" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Quillette</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Lilley" title="Brian Lilley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brian Lilley</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-goldypost-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Loomer" title="Laura Loomer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Laura Loomer</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Media#cite_note-77" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[77]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Posobiec" title="Jack Posobiec" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jack Posobiec</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson(activist)" title="Tommy Robinson (activist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tommy Robinson</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Southern" title="Lauren Southern" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lauren Southern</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height">See also</h2><div role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portal plainlist tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em; list-style: none none; line-height: 13.09px; display: table; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 175px; background: rgb(249, 249, 249); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; display: table-row;"><img alt="flag" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_Canada.svg/32px-Flag_of_Canada.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="16" class="noviewer thumbborder" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_Canada.svg/48px-Flag_of_Canada.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_Canada.svg/64px-Flag_of_Canada.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Canada" title="Portal:Canada" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Canada portal</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px; display: table-row;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Newspaper_nicu_buculei_01.svg/28px-Newspaper_nicu_buculei_01.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="noviewer" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Newspaper_nicu_buculei_01.svg/42px-Newspaper_nicu_buculei_01.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Newspaper_nicu_buculei_01.svg/56px-Newspaper_nicu_buculei_01.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Journalism" title="Portal:Journalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Journalism portal</a></li></ul></div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad_Watch" title="Jihad Watch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jihad Watch</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brussels_Journal" title="The Brussels Journal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Brussels Journal</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-jihad" title="Counter-jihad" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Counter-jihad</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia" title="Islamophobia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Islamophobia</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height">References</h2><div></div>