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Tim Pool
Pool in 2015
Personal information
Born
Timothy Daniel Pool

(1986-03-09) March 9, 1986 (age 39)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.[1]
Occupation(s)Youtuber, News coverage
Websitetimcast.com
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Years active2011–present
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Timothy Daniel Pool (born March 9, 1986) is an American citizen journalist,[6][7][8] YouTuber and political commentator.[1] He first became known for live streaming the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011.[9][10]

Early life

Pool grew up in Chicago's South Side in a lower-middle-class family. He left school at age 14. He currently resides in Pennsylvania.[11][12]

Career

Occupy

Pool used a live-chat stream to respond to questions from viewers while reporting Occupy Wall Street.[13] Pool has also let his viewers direct him on where to shoot footage.[14] He modified a toy remote-controlled Parrot AR.Drone for aerial surveillance and modified software for live streaming into a system called DroneStream.[15][16] Pool's use of live streaming video and aerial drones during Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011 led to an article in The Guardian querying whether such activities could take the form of counterproductive surveillance.[16] In January 2012, he was physically accosted by a masked assailant.[17][18]

Pool's video taken during the protests was instrumental evidence in the acquittal of photographer Alexander Arbuckle, who had been arrested by the NYPD. The video showed that the arresting officer lied under oath, though no charges were filed.[19] While covering the NoNATO protests at the 2012 Chicago summit, Pool and four others were pulled over by a dozen Chicago police officers in unmarked vehicles. The group was removed from the vehicle at gunpoint, questioned, and detained for ten minutes. The reason given by police was that the vehicle the team had been in matched a description.[20]

In the context of the Occupy movement, Pool's footage was aired on NBC and other mainstream networks.[15][21][22][23] Pool was nominated as a Time 100 personality in March 2012 for his importance to the Occupy movement alongside David Graeber.[24]

With journalistic outlets

In 2013, Pool joined Vice Media producing and hosting content and developing new methods of reporting.[25] In 2013, he reported on the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul with Google Glass.[26][25] In April 2013, he received a Shorty Award in the "Best Journalist in Social Media" category.[27] From 2013 to 2014, as Vice correspondent, Pool covered and live streamed mass protests in Ukraine that led to collapse of the Yanukovych government.[28]

In 2014, he joined Fusion TV as Director of Media innovation and Senior Correspondent.[29][30][31]

Independent work

In February 2017, Pool traveled to Sweden to investigate right-wing claims of "no-go zones" and problems with refugees in the country. He launched a crowdfunding effort to do so after Donald Trump alluded to crimes related to immigration in Sweden. Infowars writer Paul Joseph Watson offered to pay for travel costs and accommodation for any reporter "to stay in crime-ridden migrant suburbs of Malmö."[32][33] Watson donated $2,000 to Pool's crowdfund to travel to Sweden. While in Sweden, Pool largely disputed that migrant suburbs of Malmö and Stockholm were crime-ridden, saying that Chicago is vastly more violent.[34][32][33] However, Pool alleged that he had to be escorted by police out of Rinkeby, a Stockholm suburb, due to purported threats to his safety. Swedish police have disputed Pool's claims, stating, "Our understanding is that he didn't receive an escort. However, he followed the police who left the place."[35] The police stated that, "When Tim Pool took out a camera and started filming a group of young people pulled their hoods up and covered their faces and shouted at him to stop filming. The officers then told Tim Pool that it was not wise to stay there in the middle of the square and keep filming."[35]

Pool is a co-founder of Tagg.ly, a mobile application for watermarking photos and videos in order to allow copyrights to be withheld by users.[36] He also co-founded the news company Subverse (Now SCNR), which raised $1 million in 22 hours via regulation crowdfunding in 2019, surpassing the previous record on Wefunder.[37][38]

Podcaster Joe Rogan invited Pool on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, following an interview with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. The two demonstrated a limited understanding of Twitter, censorship, and abuse during the discussion, according to Atlantic writer Devin Gordon.[39] They also discussed UFOs and aliens.[40] They criticized the banning of Milo Yiannopoulos from Twitter, arguing that the provocateur had not truly encouraged his fans to harass Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones.[41] In early 2019, Rogan invited Pool and Dorsey, as well as Twitter chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, back on his podcast. Pool described cases where he asserted conservatives were unfairly suspended on Twitter. In particular, Pool brought up the banning of Alex Jones and argued that Twitter rules against misgendering transgender users is ideological. Gadde said that Twitter is a free speech platform on which punishments are based on evaluation of consistently-applied harassment guidelines. All participants were criticized from various sides following the discussion.[42][43]

In August 2020, Donald Trump liked a tweet of Pool's expressing sympathy and support for Kyle Rittenhouse. Donald Trump Jr. retweeted a statement by Pool describing how the case of Rittenhouse had convinced Pool to vote for Trump. Trump Jr. also retweeted Pool noting that "the DOJ is dropping the hammer" in pursuing prosecution of 74 protesters in Portland.[44][45][46][47][48]

As of 2020, Pool's audience is largely right-wing.[49][50]

Views

Vice, Pool's former employer, has described him as "lefty" and "progressive" for his anti-corporate politics and "right-wing" for criticizing online censorship of conservative views.[51][52] He has described himself as a social liberal who supported Bernie Sanders in 2016. According to Politico, Pool's "views on issues including social media bias and immigration often align with conservatives'".[53] According to Al Jazeera, "Pool has amplified claims that conservative media endure persecution and bias at the hands of tech companies."[54] On August 24, 2020, Pool announced his support for President Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election.[55]

References

  1. ^ a b Townsend, Allie (November 15, 2011). "Watch: Occupy Wall Street, Broadcasting Live". Time. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  2. ^ "Tim Pool Channel Analytics". Social Blade. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  3. ^ "Timcast Channel Analytics". Social Blade. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  4. ^ "Timcast IRL Channel Analytics". Social Blade. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  5. ^ "SCNR Channel Analytics". Social Blade. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  6. ^ Rebecca Savransky (August 15, 2016). "Journalist pulls out of Milwaukee over escalating racial tensions". The Hill. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  7. ^ Michelle Mark (August 15, 2016). "Prominent digital journalist pulls out of Milwaukee: 'For those who are perceivably white, it is just not safe to be here'". Business Insider. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  8. ^ Andrew Marantz (December 11, 2017). "The Live-Streamers Who Are Challenging Traditional Journalism". The Hill. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  9. ^ Fields, Jim (February 3, 2012). "The Media Messenger of Zuccotti Park". Time. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
  10. ^ DeGrasse, Martha (November 17, 2011). "Mobile phone streams Occupy Wall Street to the world". TCRWireless. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  11. ^ @Timcast (April 16, 2017). "@tariqnasheed Im a mixed race high school dropout from the southside of Chicago and we probably agree on many issues but you wont even give it a chance" (Tweet) – via Twitter.[dead link]
  12. ^ S.A., COPESA, Consorcio Periodistico de Chile. "Indignado en Wall St - La Tercera El Semanal - La Tercera Edición Impresa" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on February 27, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ "Occupy PressThink: Tim Pool". Pressthink. November 20, 2011. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  14. ^ Joanna (November 15, 2011). "Watch: Occupy Wall Street, Broadcasting Live". Ustream.tv. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  15. ^ a b Captain, Sean (January 6, 2012). "Threat Level: Livestreaming Journalists Want to Occupy the Skies With Cheap Drones". Wired. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  16. ^ a b Sharkey, Noel; Knuckey, Sarah (December 21, 2011). "Occupy Wall Street's 'occucopter' – who's watching whom?". The Guardian. London. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  17. ^ Devereaux, Ryan (February 3, 2012). "Occupy Wall Street: 'There's a militant animosity bred by direct action'". The Guardian. London.
  18. ^ Robbins, Christopher (May 8, 2012). "Anarchists Think Photographers And Reporters Are The "Fu*king Enemy"". Gothamist. Archived from the original on May 12, 2012.
  19. ^ Levinson, Paul (2012). New New Media, 2nd edition. Pearson. p. 182.
  20. ^ "Independent Journalists Detained at Gunpoint". NBC Chicago.
  21. ^ Martin, Adam (January 5, 2012). "The Very Public Breakup of Occupy Wall Street's Ustream Team". The Atlantic Wire. Archived from the original on June 21, 2013. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  22. ^ Coscarelli, Joe (January 5, 2012). "Daily Intel: Occupy Wall Street's Video Stars Are Feuding". New York. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  23. ^ Captain, Sean (November 21, 2011). "Tim Pool And Henry Ferry: The Men Behind Occupy Wall Street's Live Stream". Fast Company. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  24. ^ "The 2012 Time 100 Poll". Time. March 29, 2012. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; May 1, 2012 suggested (help)
  25. ^ a b Dredge, Stuart (July 30, 2013). "How Vice's Tim Pool used Google Glass to cover Istanbul protests". The Guardian.
  26. ^ Martin, Adam (December 7, 2011). "Occupy Wall Street Has a Drone: The Occucopter". The Atlantic Wire. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  27. ^ Ngak, Chenda (April 9, 2013). "Shorty Awards 2013 honors Michelle Obama, Jimmy Kimmel". CBS News. Archived from the original on April 11, 2013. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; July 7, 2013 suggested (help)
  28. ^ Pool, Tim (May 6, 2014). "Live Streaming the Ukrainian Revolt". Vice. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  29. ^ Steel, Emily (September 7, 2014). "Fusion Set to Name Director of Media Innovation". The New York Times.
  30. ^ "Tim Pool". Fusion.
  31. ^ "Fusion Brings On Tim Pool". Cision. September 9, 2014.
  32. ^ a b Bowden, George (February 21, 2017). "Paul Joseph Watson Comes Good On Twitter Offer To 'Investigate Malmo, Sweden, Crimes'". HuffPost. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  33. ^ a b "The man sent to 'crime-ridden' Sweden by a right-wing journalist has reported his findings". indy100. February 28, 2017.
  34. ^ "Tim Pool har lämnat Sverige". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). March 15, 2017. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
  35. ^ a b "Police dispute US journalist's claim he was escorted out of Rinkeby". thelocal.se. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  36. ^ Burgett, Gannon (May 6, 2014). "Tagg.ly Makes For Simple Watermarking of Photos on iOS". PetaPixel. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
  37. ^ Alois, J. D. (October 9, 2019). "Crowdfunding on Wefunder, SubverseNews Tops $1 Million in 22 Hours". Crowdfund Insider. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
  38. ^ Silverman, Craig (May 6, 2014). "New service will rate the authenticity of digital images". Poynter. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
  39. ^ Gordon, Story by Devin (August 19, 2019). "Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?". The Atlantic. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
  40. ^ Neale, Spencer (April 28, 2020). "'They don't know what these things are': Joe Rogan says Pentagon in the dark on UFOs". Washington Examiner. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
  41. ^ Peters, Justin (March 21, 2019). "How Joe Rogan's Hugely Popular Podcast Became an Essential Platform for "Freethinkers" Who Hate the Left". Slate Magazine.
  42. ^ Gilmour, David (March 5, 2019). "Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appears on Joe Rogan's podcast—again". The Daily Dot. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
  43. ^ Scola, Nancy (October 28, 2020). "Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here's the Woman Driving the Change". Politico. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
  44. ^ Cheney-Rice, Zak (August 31, 2020). "Trump Is an Arsonist Masquerading As a Firefighter". Intelligencer. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  45. ^ BeMiller, Haley (September 1, 2020). "Trump paints false picture of Kyle Rittenhouse shootings ahead of Kenosha visit". PolitiFact. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  46. ^ Crump, James (August 28, 2020). "Trump Jr shares post saying 'DOJ is dropping the hammer' as 74 face federal charges over Portland protests". The Independent. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  47. ^ Graziosi, Graig (August 28, 2020). "Trump Jr shares post defending alleged Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse". The Independent. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  48. ^ Papenfuss, Mary (August 30, 2020). "Trump Ducks Question About Accused Teen Shooter In Kenosha". HuffPost.
  49. ^ Goforth, Claire (November 13, 2020). "MAGA star who predicted 50-state Trump victory says he's single because of feminism". The Daily Dot.
  50. ^ Graziosi, Graig (August 28, 2020). "Trump Jr shares post defending alleged Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse". The Independent.
  51. ^ Uberti, David (July 26, 2019). "Tulsi Gabbard's $50M Google Lawsuit Takes a Page from the Far-Right Playbook". Vice. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
  52. ^ "Trump Invites Fringe Social Media Company Popular With Nazis to the White House". Vice. July 10, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
  53. ^ Overly, Steven. "Social media gadflies gather for airing of grievances with Trump". Politico. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
  54. ^ "Critics slam Trump 'social media summit' over far-right invitees". Al Jazeera. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
  55. ^ Graziosi, Greg (August 28, 2020). "Trump Jr shares post defending alleged Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse". The Independent. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
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