Monetizing hate: Meet the tech founders profiting from extremist content | the fifth estate

Online extremist content is influencing real-life violence. To creators, it’s free speech; it’s also big business. CBC’s the fifth estate travels from Nashville to Calgary to eastern Europe on the trail of two Canadian companies that help creators turn bigotry into profit.

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CREDITS: THE FIFTH ESTATE

51-12 Friday, March 20, 2026

The Business of Bigotry?

producer/director

Rachel Ward

writer

Ioanna Roumeliotis

investigative journalist

Eva Uguen-Csenge

video editor

Anne MacRae

additional research

Matthew Pierce

editing support

Scott McCormack

senior videographer

Jonathan Castell

principal photography

Ousama Farag

additional photography

Gorjan Atanasov

Monty Kruger

Yanjun Li

David Mercer

Pelin Sidki

Turgut Yeter

location sound

Marko Rikaloski

archival material

CP Images

Entropy

Fox News

GoyimTV

NBC

NewsChannel5

Prism Live

Reuters

Rumble

Shutterstock

Melissa Alvarez

German Corea

Ebony White

Andrea with the Bangs/Apple Podcasts

Rachel Constantinidis/Facebook

Chris Pavlovski/Instagram

David Bell/LinkedIn

Emmanuel Constantinidis/LinkedIn

Rachel Constantinidis/LinkedIn

Crowder Bits/Rumble

Mark Collett/Rumble

Mark Collett/Entropy

Nick Fuentes/Rumble

The Alex Jones Show/Rumble

Viralhog/Rumble

Viral Video UK/Rumble

Donald Trump/Truth Social

White House

AbroaderHome/YouTube

Orthodox Christian Podcast/YouTube

Entropy/YouTube

Nasdaq/YouTube

Macedonia2025/YouTube

Rachel Constantinidis/YouTube

Andrea with the Bangs/X

Entropy/X

visual research

Leslie Morrison

graphic designer

Tim Kindrachuk

post audio

Michael Banani

colourist

Scott McIntyre

interpreter

Carlos-Daniel Figueroa

for IRL

Denica Chadikovska

Saska Cvetkovska⁩

Aleksandar Janev

Borjan Stojanovski

for OCCRP

Kevin G. Hall

William Jordan

special thanks

Frothy Monkey Nashville

rollout producer

Leanne Stepnow

social media producers

Danny Burke

Alex Soloducha

Brian Vinh Trinh

digital producer

Janet Davison

media management

Laurel Robinson

resource coordinators

Marc Cormier

Dragan Maricic

associate directors

Julia Bradley

Carmen Smith

packaging editor

Alessia Protomanni

coordinating associate director

Jane Wilson

senior producer

Emmanuel Marchand

executive producer

Allya Davidson

original broadcast

March 20, 2026