Occupy Wall Street After watching a viral video from
Occupy Wall Street, Pool purchased a one-way bus ticket to New York. Pool joined the Occupy Wall Street protestors on September 20, 2011. Shortly thereafter, he met Henry Ferry, a former realtor and sales manager, with whom he founded media company The Other 99. Pool also began livestreaming the protests with his cell phone and quickly assumed an on-camera role. Pool also let his viewers direct him on where to shoot footage. He modified a toy remote-controlled
Parrot AR.Drone for
aerial surveillance and modified software for live streaming into a system called DroneStream. In mid-November 2011, Pool broadcast live streams, one of which reached 21 hours in length, of Occupy Wall Street's eviction from
Zuccotti Park. Pool's use of live streaming video and aerial drones during Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011 led to an article in
The Guardian querying whether such activities could take the form of counterproductive surveillance. Also in January 2012, The Other 99 was disbanded following a feud between Pool and Ferry. Pool had also planned on livestreaming
occupy protests across the United States for a documentary called
Occumentary, but it was never filmed. While covering the NoNATO protests at the
2012 Chicago summit, Pool and four others were pulled over by a dozen Chicago police officers in unmarked vehicles. The group was removed from the vehicle at gunpoint, questioned, and detained for ten minutes. The reason given by police was that the team's vehicle matched a description of another vehicle they sought. In the context of the Occupy movement, Pool's footage was aired on
NBC and other mainstream networks. According to
The Washington Post, Pool "helped demonstrate to activists that livestreaming had potential as an alternative to depending on cable news coverage." He 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." In November 2011, Pool told
On the Media, "I don't consider myself a journalist. I consider myself an activist 100%" there "to support the movement." In October 2012, he told
El País that "I'm not an activist" and described himself as a journalist. In 2018, Pool said that "I don't align with Occupy Wall Street and never did." In 2021, he denounced the Occupy movement as "crooked."
Vice and Fusion After joining Vice Media, Pool began producing and hosting content and developed new methods of reporting. In 2013, he reported on the
Gezi Park protests in
Istanbul with
Google Glass. From 2013 to 2014, while working for
Vice, Pool covered and live streamed
the mass protests in Ukraine that led to the collapse of the
Yanukovych government. He also covered the
Ferguson unrest and covered protests in Thailand, Turkey, and Egypt.
Independent work As of 2021, Pool operates six
YouTube channels, two of which,
Timcast and
Tim Pool, feature daily political commentary, while a third serves as a clip channel for Pool's podcast,
Timcast IRL.
Journalism and commentary Pool covered the
2016 Milwaukee riots. 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." In February 2017, Pool traveled to Sweden to investigate claims of "
no-go zones" and problems with refugees in the country. He launched a crowdfunding effort to do so after U.S. president
Donald Trump alluded to crimes related to immigration in Sweden.
InfoWars writer
Paul Joseph Watson offered to pay for travel costs and accommodation for any reporter "to stay in crime-ridden migrant suburbs of
Malmö." Watson donated $2,000 to Pool's crowdfund to travel to Sweden. The police stated that, "When Tim Pool took out a camera and started filming, a group of young people pulled their hoods up and covered their faces and shouted at him to stop filming. The officers then told Tim Pool that it was not wise to stay there in the middle of the square and keep filming." In 2019, podcaster
Joe Rogan invited Pool onto his podcast,
The Joe Rogan Experience, following an interview with
Twitter founder
Jack Dorsey. The two criticized the banning of
alt-right commentator
Milo Yiannopoulos from Twitter, arguing that the provocateur had not truly encouraged his fans to harass
Ghostbusters actress
Leslie Jones.
The Atlantic contributor Devin Gordon criticized Rogan and Pool, stating that both men demonstrated a limited understanding of Twitter, censorship, and abuse during the discussion. Rogan invited Pool and Dorsey, as well as Twitter chief legal officer
Vijaya Gadde, back on his podcast. Pool described cases where he asserted conservatives were unfairly suspended on Twitter. In particular, Pool brought up the banning of
Alex Jones and argued that Twitter rules against misgendering transgender users is ideological. Gadde said that Twitter is a free speech platform on which punishments are based on evaluation of consistently applied harassment guidelines. In July 2019, Pool was invited to participate in a White House event hosting right-wing internet personalities who Trump characterized as unfairly targeted for their views. Some news outlets described Pool as a spreader of a conspiracy theory about the
murder of Seth Rich. In August 2020, Trump liked a tweet published by Pool expressing sympathy and support for
Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Illinois then facing trial on homicide charges of killing two people during the
riots in
Kenosha, Wisconsin, for which he was ultimately acquitted. Trump's son,
Donald Trump Jr., retweeted a statement by Pool describing how the case of Rittenhouse had convinced Pool to vote for Trump. A report from the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) said that Pool was a "superspreader" of
fake news surrounding voter fraud before and after the
2020 United States presidential election. In June 2021, Pool invited North Korean defector
Yeonmi Park onto his podcast. Park claimed that North Koreans "don't know the concept of love" aside from political admiration of
Kim Jong Un. Pool replied by telling her that this was "The most villainous thing I've ever heard." however, an investigation by experts and journalist into Park's claims about North Korea found that she had fabricated many of her stories, including the ones she told Pool. Pool was a critic of
vaccine mandates in the COVID-19 pandemic, said he was unvaccinated, and hosted COVID-19 conspiracy theorists. In August 2021, he criticized New York City Mayor
Bill de Blasio's
COVID-19 vaccine passport mandate, as it did not have any exemptions for
immunocompromised people or people with other disabilities. When Pool contracted COVID-19 in November of that year, he told his audience that he was prescribed and had taken
ivermectin, known to be ineffective against the virus, along with
monoclonal antibodies, an effective treatment. In November 2022, Pool interviewed rapper and presidential candidate
Kanye West on his podcast,
Timcast IRL. West's political advisors, Milo Yiannopoulos and
white supremacist Nick Fuentes also participated in the interview. The interview came days after West and Fuentes met with former President Trump. During the interview, West made a series of
antisemitic statements, including claims about a
Jewish conspiracy controlling the American government and media. Pool criticized West's comments on Jews, saying "I'm gonna disagree with you." After Pool refused to criticize Jews, West and his advisors walked out of the interview. According to
The Independent,
BuzzFeed News, and
The Daily Dot, Pool has a "primarily right-wing audience." After the
2025 Brown University shooting, Pool shared misinformation falsely identifying a Palestinian
Brown University undergraduate student as the perpetrator. A different individual, Cláudio Neves Valente, was subsequently identified as the shooter.
2024 Tenet Media investigation In September 2024, U.S. federal prosecutors charged two employees of Russia's state-controlled media network
RT of conspiracy to violate the
Foreign Agents Registration Act, conspiracy to commit money laundering and of allegedly launching a $10 million propaganda scheme that enlisted popular right-wing social media influencers. The indictment describes, but does not mention by name,
Tenet Media, which has partnered with commentators Pool,
Dave Rubin,
Lauren Southern,
Benny Johnson, Matt Christiansen, and Tayler Hansen. Pool matches the indictment's description of "Commentator-2," who it alleges agreed to provide content to Tenet Media in exchange for "$100k per weekly episode." stated that he was unaware of the company's connections to Russian funding and declared himself a victim of the alleged scheme. In 2019, he co-founded the news company Subverse, which raised $1 million in 22 hours via regulation crowdfunding in 2019, surpassing the previous record on
Wefunder. The service was later renamed SCNR. Pool partnered with Emily Molli and former Vice editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro, although Pool later fired both of them in January 2021. In 2022, he collaborated with drummer
Pete Parada to release two singles, "Genocide (Losing My Mind)" and "Only Ever Wanted." "Only Ever Wanted" reached the No. 2 spot on the global
iTunes chart. The single was most downloaded on the
Billboard charts in September 2022 in
Alternative Digital Song Sales. Both singles reached the No. 1 spot on
iTunes. In May 2025, Pool was a guest on the
Bill Maher podcast
Club Random.
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