Дuring the 2017 French Presidential Election, Jack Posobiec, The Rebel Media's Washington, D.C. McInnes also produced a satirical video for Rebel called 'Ten Things I Hate about Jews', later retitled 'Ten Things I Hate About Israel'. He later said his comments were taken out of context. In March 2017, one of their correspondents, Gavin McInnes, made controversial comments defending Holocaust deniers, accused the Jews of being responsible for the Holodomor and the Treaty of Versailles, and said he was 'becoming anti-Semitic'. Robinson was convicted of mortgage fraud and using a friend's passport to enter the US. In 2017, Rebel Media hired far-right activist Tommy Robinson, founder of the avowedly anti-Islamic English Defence League, as its British correspondent. ДЇollowing the Quebec City mosque shooting on 29 January 2017, Rebel promoted a conspiracy theory that the shooting was perpetrated by Muslims. Rebel Media received support from the Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and three journalism organizations in getting the UNFCC to grant this access, after Levant's October 17 appeal to Justin Trudeau. We're being excluded because we have the wrong opinion.' Levant wrote that 'We're not being excluded because we have an opinion. In late 2016, after first being refused press accreditation for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) COP22 Climate Change Conference, Rebel Media was allowed to send two correspondents to COP22. The Canadian Association of Journalists supported preventing government from choosing journalism coverage.' On 17 February 2016, the government admitted that it made a mistake and said that it would allow The Rebel Media correspondents into press briefings. In early 2016, the Alberta government banned The Rebel Media's correspondents from press briefings on the grounds that, because Ezra Levant had testified in court in 2014 that he was a columnist or commentator rather than a reporter, none of his current correspondents could be considered to be journalists.

In the summer of 2015, the channel, led by Levant, launched a campaign to boycott Tim Hortons, a chain of Canadian coffee shops, after it rejected in-store ads from Enbridge due to complaints from customers opposed to the oil pipeline projects being promoted by the ads.

The site soon attracted a number of other former Sun News Network personalities such as David Menzies, Paige MacPherson, Faith Goldy, Patrick Moore and, briefly, Michael Coren.

A crowdfunding campaign raised roughly CA$100,000 for the project. Levant has cited Breitbart News, the American far-right news hub, as an inspiration. Levant said that his online production would be unencumbered by the regulatory and distribution difficulties faced by Sun News Network and that its lower production costs would make it more viable. The Rebel Media was formed by Levant and Lilley following the closure of the Sun News Network. It has promoted climate change denial and oil sands extraction in Alberta. In the midst of the 2021 Canadian federal election, Justin Trudeau accused Rebel News of spreading misinformation, especially with regards to COVID-19 vaccines. McInnes departed in 2017, then temporarily rejoined the site for a period in 2019. Gavin McInnes, founder of the far-right neo-fascist organization Proud Boys, was a contributor. A co-founder and two freelancers resigned in protest of the coverage. ДЇormer Sun News reporter Faith Goldy joined Rebel News after its launch, but was fired for her coverage of the 2017 Charlottesville rally and for conducting an interview with The Daily Stormer. Rebel News has been described as being part of the alt-right movement. Rebel News broadcasts its content only on the internet and has been called Canada's version of Breitbart News. It was founded in February 2015 by former Sun News Network personalities Ezra Levant and Brian Lilley. It has been described as a 'global platform' for the anti-Muslim ideology known as counter-jihad. Rebel News (also known as The Rebel Media and The Rebel) is a Canadian far-right political and social commentary media website operated by Rebel News Network Ltd. Lawrence Solomon, Raheel Raza (Advisory Board)

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