Founded by Canadian tech entrepreneur Chris Pavlovski in 2013 and backed by various high-profile right-wing figures, Rumble plays an important role in the alternative digital infrastructure that caters to the extreme right, including far-right figures that have been banned on mainstream platforms for misinformation and hate speech. The platform is rife with QAnon content and other dangerous conspiracy theories, harmful medical misinformation, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ hate speech, and white nationalist and antisemitic rhetoric.