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

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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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0:00 - The deadly cost of online hate
11:41 - Following the 'alt-tech' money trail
22:44 - The billion-dollar shield
33:43 - An industry without borders

#TechEthics #OnlineExtremism #documentary

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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