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In the early hours of tomorrow morning, the two US presidential nominees will go head-to-head in their first live debate ahead of polling day on 5 November. 

Republican former president Donald Trump will go up against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris at 9pm tonight EDT or 2am UK time. From this side of the pond, you can watch it live on the BBC News channel or Channel 4. 

The event will last for 90 minutes with two commercial breaks in which the nominees will not be allowed to speak with campaign staff. There will be no studio audience, no opening statements and only the two moderators can ask questions.

Each candidate is allowed two minutes to answer each question, a two minute rebuttal and an additional minute to follow up, clarify or respond. Candidates’…

Rumble, a right-wing video streaming platform which has become a home for QAnon supporters, election deniers, and other extremists, hosts Why We Vote, a show that is dedicated to election misinformation and affiliated with QAnon-promoting Badlands Media. The show has been hosting election deniers from around the country, including some key figures involved with Arizona Republican Kari Lake’s unsuccessful legal efforts to overturn her gubernatorial election defeat. 

Badlands Media, which is a Rumble channel founded by QAnon influencers Jon Herold and Kate Buckley (known online as “Patel Patriot” and “Kate Awakening,” respectively), features multiple QAnon influencers as hosts and largely dedicates its programming to covering QAnon and related conspiracy theories. One of its…

After the Capitol insurrection, major social media and web hosting platforms that provide the tools for them to stay online, like Amazon Web Services, made substantial efforts to eradicate domestic violent extremists and conspiracy groups like QAnon from their platforms.

AWS removed far-right social media space Parler from its services, causing it to go temporarily offline. 

Since then, many of these far-right groups have jumped to online spaces like Gab.

These alternative hosting companies hold terms of service that allow hate speech and other unfavorable content to flourish on their platforms. 

The most well-known of these alternative hosting sites is Epik, backed by CEO Rob Monster, who over the years has provided services to several hate-speech-filled message boards like neo-Nazi…

After the Capitol insurrection, major social media and web hosting platforms which provide the tools for them to stay online, like Amazon Web Services, made strong efforts to eradicate domestic violent extremists and conspiracy groups like QAnon from their platforms. AWS removed far-right social media space Parler from its services, causing it to go temporarily offline. 

Since then, many of these far-right groups have jumped to online spaces like Gab. These alternative hosting companies hold terms of service that allow hate speech and other unfavorable content to flourish on their platforms. 

The most well-known of these alternative hosting sites is Epik, backed by CEO Rob Monster, who…