Pending Review
No public record was found confirming that former Cambridge Analytica, SCL Group, or Emerdata employees hold positions at Rumble Inc.
Date: 2026
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Rumble received a $775 million strategic investment from Tether Holdings in December 2024, a capital source unrelated to the Thiel/Mercer network.
Date: 2024-12-20
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Rumble's publicly posted moderation policy contains no explicit prohibition on QAnon content, though Media Matters documented at least 27 QAnon channels active on the platform.
Date: 2023
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Rebekah Mercer, daughter of Robert Mercer (Cambridge Analytica's primary investor), co-founded 1789 Capital, which was publicly identified as a Rumble investor in December 2024.
Date: 2024-12
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Rumble Cloud, the company's cloud infrastructure division, has sought to position itself as an alternative hosting provider for customers who face deplatforming risk from AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. It launched in beta in 2023.
Date: 2023
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Rumble signed a content and cloud services agreement with Donald Trump's campaign and Truth Social in 2023, providing hosting and distribution infrastructure. Trump's campaign videos and Truth Social video content are distributed through Rumble's CDN infrastructure.
Date: 2023
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Rumble acquired Locals, a subscription-based community platform for creators, in October 2021 for an undisclosed sum. Locals was founded by Dave Rubin, a conservative commentator, and had approximately 200,000 paid subscribers at the time of acquisition.
Date: 2021-10
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Rumble has signed content distribution agreements with multiple prominent conservative and right-aligned media figures and organizations beyond Bongino, including Russell Brand (whose UK content faced demonetization on YouTube following sexual assault allegations in 2023) and Steve Bannon's War Room podcast.
Date: 2023
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Peter Thiel has been identified as an investor in Rumble through 1789 Capital and through direct or affiliated investment vehicles. Thiel's investment is consistent with his documented pattern of funding right-aligned media and technology platforms including Parler and the Daily Caller.
Date: 2023
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Rumble reported total revenue of approximately $24.7 million for fiscal year 2023 and $34.3 million for fiscal year 2024, against operating losses of approximately $138 million and $144 million respectively. The company has been consistently unprofitable since going public.
Date: 2024
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Howard Lutnick, who chaired the CF Acquisition Corp. VIII SPAC that took Rumble public, was nominated by President Trump as U.S. Secretary of Commerce and confirmed by the Senate on February 5, 2025. Lutnick has not disclosed or been required to divest from Cantor Fitzgerald's ongoing Rumble relationship as part of his ethics agreement.
Date: 2025-02-05
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Tether Holdings is registered in the British Virgin Islands and operates largely outside traditional banking regulation. Its USDT stablecoin has a circulating supply exceeding $100 billion as of 2024. Tether has been the subject of CFTC enforcement — in 2021 it paid $41 million to settle CFTC charges that it made untrue or misleading statements about USDT's dollar backing.
Date: 2021-10-15
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
In December 2024, Tether Holdings — the issuer of the USDT stablecoin and the largest stablecoin operator globally — made a $775 million strategic investment in Rumble. Of the total, $250 million went to corporate use and $525 million funded a tender offer for Class A shares at $7.50 per share.
Date: 2024-12-20
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
In August 2021, Rumble signed an exclusive four-year content distribution agreement with Dan Bongino, who received an equity stake in the company as part of the deal. Bongino subsequently joined Rumble's board of directors. He is a former Secret Service agent and prominent conservative media personality.
Date: 2021-08-03
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Chris Pavlovski controls a majority of Rumble's combined voting power through Class D super-voting shares, which carry significantly more votes per share than the Class A shares traded on NASDAQ. This dual-class structure insulates Pavlovski from shareholder pressure regardless of public market ownership.
Date: 2022
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Rumble completed its SPAC merger with CF Acquisition Corp. VIII — a Cantor Fitzgerald-sponsored blank check company chaired by Howard W. Lutnick — and began trading on NASDAQ under ticker RUM on September 19, 2022. The transaction valued Rumble at approximately $2.1 billion.
Date: 2022-09-19
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
Rumble Inc. was founded in 2013 by Chris Pavlovski in Ontario, Canada as a video hosting platform. It initially targeted viral content before pivoting to political and conservative media around 2020-2021 following creator deplatforming events on YouTube and other mainstream platforms.
Date: 2013
Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review
In December 2024, Tether Holdings made a $775 million strategic investment in Rumble, with $250 million directed to corporate use and $525 million used to fund a tender offer for outstanding Rumble Class A shares.
Date: 2024-12-20
Added: 23 Apr 2026
Pending Review
Rumble disclosed in its August 2021 announcement that it signed an exclusive four-year content distribution agreement with Dan Bongino, who took an equity position in the company as part of the deal.
Date: 2021-08-03
Added: 23 Apr 2026
Pending Review
Rumble Inc. began trading on NASDAQ under the ticker RUM on 2022-09-19 following the closure of its business combination with CF Acquisition Corp. VI, the Cantor Fitzgerald-affiliated SPAC chaired by Howard W. Lutnick.
Date: 2022-09-19
Added: 23 Apr 2026
Pending Review
Rumble disclosed in its CF Acquisition Corp. VI / Rumble S-4 / 8-K filings that Chris Pavlovski is the company's Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, and that Pavlovski controls a majority of the company's combined voting power through Class D super-voting shares.
Date: 2022-09-16
Added: 23 Apr 2026
Pending Review
The framing of Rumble as "the QAnon platform" or as a corporate continuation of Cambridge Analytica overstates the documented record: Rumble is not corporately descended from Cambridge Analytica (which dissolved in 2018), and no public filing identifies Rumble's editorial policy with QAnon. The defensible claim is narrower — that Rumble is funded by an overlapping Thiel/Mercer-adjacent capital network and hosts a personnel diaspora from CA-era political-tech work.
Date: 2026-04-23
Added: 23 Apr 2026
Pending Review
1789 Capital — the Donald Trump Jr.-affiliated venture firm in which Peter Thiel has been a documented backer — has been publicly identified as a Rumble investor in connection with the December 2024 capital raise and prior PIPE-style allocations.
Date: 2024-12-19
Added: 23 Apr 2026