Rebel News Type of site
Politics Available in Canadian English Headquarters Toronto , Ontario [1] Founder(s) Ezra Levant (Director) Editor Ezra Levant Key people Lawrence Solomon, Raheel Raza (Advisory Board) URL RebelNews.com Commercial Yes Registration Optional Launched 16 February 2015; 9 years ago (2015-02-16 ) Current status Active
Rebel News (also known as The Rebel Media and The Rebel ) is a right-wing Canadian news and politics website . It created by Ezra Levant in 2015. He described it as the Breitbart News of Canada . Many people say that it is alt-right but Levant says that it is not.[2]
In the midst of the 2021 Canadian federal election, Justin Trudeau accused Rebel News of spreading misinformation, especially about COVID-19 vaccines.[3]
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