1. Timothy Daniel Pool was born on March 9,1986 and is an American right-wing political commentator and podcast host.
35 Facts About Tim Pool
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Tim Pool first became known for live streaming the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests.
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Tim Pool joined Vice Media and Fusion TV in 2014, later working on YouTube and other platforms.
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Tim Pool's father was a firefighter and his mother sold cars.
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Tim Pool attended a Catholic school until completing the fifth grade and left school at the age of 14.
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Tim Pool joined the Occupy Wall Street protestors on September 20,2011.
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Tim Pool began livestreaming the protests with his cell phone and quickly assumed an on-camera role.
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Tim Pool used a live-chat stream to respond to questions from viewers while reporting on Occupy Wall Street.
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Tim Pool let his viewers direct him on where to shoot footage.
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Tim Pool had planned on livestreaming occupy protests across the United States for a documentary called Occumentary, but it was never filmed.
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Tim Pool's video taken during the protests was instrumental evidence in the acquittal of photographer Alexander Arbuckle, who had been arrested by the NYPD.
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Tim Pool was nominated as a Time 100 personality in March 2012 for his importance to the Occupy movement, alongside David Graeber, as Time dubbed Pool "the eyes of the movement".
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In 2018, Tim Pool said that "I don't align with Occupy Wall Street and never did".
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From 2013 to 2014, while working for Vice, Tim Pool covered and live streamed the mass protests in Ukraine that led to the collapse of the Yanukovych government.
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Tim Pool covered the Ferguson unrest and covered protests in Thailand, Turkey, and Egypt.
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Tim Pool said he would leave the area and stop reporting on these events, saying he thought it was dangerous due to perceived escalating "racial tensions".
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In February 2017, Tim Pool traveled to Sweden to investigate claims of "no-go zones" and problems with refugees in the country.
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Tim Pool launched a crowdfunding effort to do so after US president Donald Trump alluded to crimes related to immigration in Sweden.
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In November 2017, Pool created his second YouTube channel, Timcast News.
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The Atlantic contributor Devin Gordon criticized Rogan and Tim Pool, stating that both men demonstrated a limited understanding of Twitter, censorship, and abuse during the discussion.
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Tim Pool described cases where he asserted conservatives were unfairly suspended on Twitter.
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In particular, Tim Pool brought up the banning of Alex Jones and argued that Twitter rules against misgendering transgender users is ideological.
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In July 2019, Tim Pool was invited to participate in a White House event hosting right-wing internet personalities who President Trump characterized as unfairly targeted for their views.
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In June 2021, Tim Pool invited North Korean defector Yeonmi Park onto his podcast.
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Tim Pool was a critic of vaccine mandates in the COVID-19 pandemic, said he was unvaccinated, and hosted COVID-19 conspiracy theorists.
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In November 2022, Pool interviewed rapper and presidential candidate Kanye West on his podcast, Timcast IRL.
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Tim Pool said he was interested in this kind of application due to experiences where others used his photographs without attribution.
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Tim Pool partnered with Emily Molli and former Vice editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro, although Tim Pool later fired both of them in January 2021.
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Tim Pool has criticized anti-fascist protestors and progressive social justice movements.
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Tim Pool had said that "the news is dying" and that in trying to appeal to young people with sensationalism, it skews towards liberal and left-leaning audiences.
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In 2019, Politico said Tim Pool "describes himself as a pro-Bernie Sanders social liberal" but said his "views on issues including social media bias and immigration often align with conservatives'".
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BBC News in 2023 said Tim Pool's podcasts "cover right-wing talking points and conspiracy theories".
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Tim Pool has criticized aid to Ukraine as a provocation against Russia, and called Ukraine "one of the greatest enemies of our nation" in 2024, after allegations that a Ukrainian was involved in the Nord Stream pipelines sabotage.
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Tim Pool supported Trump in the 2024 United States presidential election.
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In 2025, Tim Pool married his girlfriend, Alison Neubauer, with whom he is expecting a child.