Tim Pool
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| Bias Rating | Center |
| Type | Author |
| Region | National |
| Website | timcast.com |
| @Timcast | |
| Wikipedia | Tim Pool |
About Tim Pool's Bias Rating
Tim Pool is a author source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Center.
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Tim Pool's Comments on AllSides
On June 25, 2019, Tim Pool tweeted, "Follow Allsides [sic] ... This is a pretty good source to show you news from various perspectives. Much respect, please share."
On Aug. 11, 2019, Pool tweeted an AllSides bias audit that found Google News bias. The bias audit found that the first three articles users saw in the "Top Stories" section of Google News for shooting-related queries were mostly from CNN and left-leaning media outlets. Pool stated, "Is there evidence that Google is biased against conservatives? Yes there is a lot of evidence and it's not just Google ... But here is another bit of data, a non-partisan analyses ... Of course we will just keep hearing the lie that there isn't any regardless".
About Tim Pool
Tim Pool is an American journalist, YouTuber, and political commentator. As the founding member of Vice News (Left bias), he covered major events around the world in places such as Istanbul, Cairo, and Sao Paulo. He livestreamed the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011. Pool helped to launch Subverse media in 2015.
In 2014, Pool joined Fusion as the Director of Media Innovation to help develop and utilize new technology such as livestreaming aerial drones, mobile software and hardware, and Google Glass. Following his departure from Fusion Pool, Pool began producing independent news and political commentary.
Pool owns several YouTube Channels, including Tim Pool, TimCast, and TimCast IRL; each of these had over 1 million subscribers as of April 2022.
Pool has been a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience, episodes 1242 and 1258. In episode 1258, Pool appeared alongside Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and the pair discussed freedom of speech and censorship on the platform. Pool argued that Twiter's platform "restricts speech," and that its content moderation rules are "at odds with conservatives." As an example, he pointed to Twitter's rules against misgendering as targeting the conservative view and leading to unfair bans of conservatives. He told Vijaya Gadde, the global lead for legal, policy, and trust and safety at Twitter, and Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder and CEO, "You're biased and you're targeting specific individuals because your rules support this perspective." He argued that the progressive left is more likely to call for restrictions on speech.
Pool has also appeared on several episodes of The Rubin Report with Dave Rubin and has been featured in several documentaries including The Hacker Wars, Occupy: The Movie, and Trolling For Freedom.
Pool is a self-described "disaffected liberal." In an April 2022 tweet, he rejected the label of "progressive" and called himself a "moderate with slightly left leaning views on some policy," adding that "our biggest audience faction identifies as libertarian" and "we rag on fox news all the time."
Pool supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Primary against Hillary Clinton. In Jan. 2019, he tweeted that he "never supported" then-President Donald Trump and didn't "like Trump." However, Pool said he voted for Trump in 2020 out of distaste for the political left's behavior.
Pool's YouTube content often sides with the political right on free speech and censorship issues, and tends to discuss articles from center and right-rated outlets like The Daily Wire (Right bias), the Daily Mail (Right bias) and the Wall Street Journal (Center bias). He also occasionally criticizes the Washington Post (Lean Left bias), including an April 2022 article on the Twitter account "Libs of TikTok."
Third-Party Accusations of Bias
A shooter who killed eight and wounded seven at a Dallas mall in 2023 was found to have posted clips from Pool's show on social media. This prompted accusations that the shooter, described by AP as "a neo-Nazi with an arsenal of firearms," had been "influenced" by Pool. Pool denied any connection to the shooter, calling media coverage surrounding the motive a "psyop" and casting doubt on whether the social media profile in question truly belonged to the shooter. Pool also called the shooting "unfortunate" and blamed "multiculturalism" for the trend of mass shootings in the U.S. A BBC News article appeared to group Pool with people "spreading false rumours" about the shooting, noting, "There's no evidence that Garcia was inspired to action by Mr Pool's podcasts, which cover right-wing talking points and conspiracy theories." A since-deleted tweet promoting the BBC article featured a link preview with a photo of Pool, leading some to accuse BBC of saying Pool was the shooter.
A Feb. 2022 video essay by YouTuber Timbah.On.Toast described Pool as a pretend "fence sitter," arguing he complicates issues and uses the language of moderates to make the paranoia of right-wing viewers appear sensible.
Several left-rated outlets have linked Pool to the political right. A 2020 article in The Independent (Lean Left bias) called him "an independent reporter with a primarily right-wing audience." The Daily Beast (Left bias) has repeatedly described Pool as on the right, including one headline which refers to him as an "ivermectin poster boy." An article in The Verge (Lean Left bias) said a separate Daily Beast article described Pool as "an alt-right-adjacent YouTube creator."
A 2019 Vice article described Pool as an "online leftie" and "a prolific YouTuber who routinely rails on the political establishment." However, a separate Vice article published two weeks earlier described him as "a right-wing media figure who once worked at VICE News."