Rumble and Locals are currently blocked in Brazil.
Posted by Louder with Crowder, Checked
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Louder with CrowderOct 5, 2026
Sources consistently show Rumble was blocked in Brazil from February 2025 and still inaccessible in mid-2025, with a 2026 source saying it was reblocked after a brief restoration, so the Rumble part is supported as of 2026-10-05.
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What was said
… They, Eduardo Bolsonaro, whom you also know, you also met, is in exile close to you in Texas. You have, you have several journalists like myself in exile. You have, you had more than 2,000 people arrested. You had acts taken down. The country, Rumble still out of the country, you had locals still out of the country, so they've taken down and they crushed the right. So they criminalized several types of speech, and it looked like the right was dead in the country. It looked like there was no hope, and yesterday what we saw, it was a landslide by every possible measure. …
Louder with Crowder · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. A vpnAlert snapshot dated 2 November 2026 reports none of 67 tested sites blocked in Brazil, but it postdates the 5 October 2026 claim and is a low-credibility, unrated source.[3]
Supports. Brazil's Supreme Court ordered Rumble suspended nationwide on 21 February 2025 for non-compliance with court orders, as reported by Reuters and AP.[1][2]
Supports. Freedom House records Rumble as still inaccessible at the end of May 2025, and a 2026 guide describes Rumble as permanently blocked since February 2025.[4][5]
Supports. A 2026 Brazilian academic paper cites a Canaltech report that Rumble briefly restored access, circumvented the block, and was blocked again by Anatel in February 2026.[6]
Context. No source mentions Locals as a platform, so the claim that Locals is blocked in Brazil is not addressed by any source.
Context. The passage says 'Rumble still out of the country' and 'locals still out of the country', which refers to Rumble's exit and to people in exile, not to a platform block, so the extraction departs from the post's wording.
Sources
6 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 4 not rated
- 1Brazil Supreme Court orders Rumble suspension in the countryreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Brazil Supreme Court justice orders Rumble suspension nationwide ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3What’s Blocked in Brazil? Rumble, and Past X & Telegram Bansvpnalert.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4Best VPN for Brazil 2026 — Rio, São Paulo & Salvadorvpnrank.io · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5esim-urlaub.de · en · ratgebereSIM Brazil 2026: Vivo, Claro, TIM — best plans & 5Gesim-urlaub.de · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6A sala ao lado: um censo do Rumble e os efeitos de seu bloqueio no Brasilsol.sbc.org.br · not rated · cited for: supports
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