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#Rumble: TruthSocial: The whole happy story of how #DevinNunes escaped Twitter and Youtube, discovered #Rumble and started the journey to a sturdy, fair-minded, Glenn-Greenwald-recommended social media infrastructure. #DevinNunes

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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#Rumble: TruthSocial: The whole happy story of how #DevinNunes escaped Twitter and Youtube, discovered #Rumble and started the journey to a sturdy, fair-minded, Glenn-Greenwald-recommended social media infrastructure. #DevinNunes

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1605963202914914304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1605963202914914304%7Ctwgr%5Ecb9b8ee8e0aec85a535ee47c8bacf7b60674c072%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Fintelligencer%2F2023%2F02%2Fwhy-rumble-is-the-only-successful-right-wing-social-platform.html

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0:00.0

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0:18.7

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0:20.4

This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

0:22.6

I'm John Bachelor.

0:23.6

I welcome Devon Nunes, CEO and guru of Truth Social,

0:26.8

to come and on a piece in New York magazine I've read recently,

0:31.6

written in great length about rumble.

0:34.7

Why this is important is that I've learned from Devon over the years

0:38.8

that rumble is the infrastructure that truth social relies upon.

0:46.0

You will recall Parler, which was a proto-truth social

0:50.4

many years ago before the 2016 election.

0:54.9

Parler depended upon the infrastructure of Amazon and Microsoft

1:01.1

and other keepers of the servers, the server farms,

1:05.9

so that after Donald Trump was elected in 2016,

1:10.9

Parler disappeared because it was shut out of having an infrastructure.

1:16.5

Devon's observation early on was that what true social needed

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