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By Stephanie Levitz

OTTAWA — The founder of the online news site The Rebel admits its content and management need more oversight in the wake of a string of controversies.

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One reporter was fired, another founder quit and two other contributors resigned last week after the outlet came under intense criticism for its coverage of deadly protests in Virginia.

While some believed the outlet to be on its last legs, Rebel founder Ezra Levant said late Tuesday that’s not the plan.

“I’m a flawed leader who has made mistakes,” he wrote in a post on the conservative news site late Tuesday.

“But as long as you stand with me, I will still stand.”

Levant said he’s going to bring in better management of both the business and editorial side of the operation and hire new journalists.

Levant said he is partially to blame, and can no longer run the whole company.

“Maybe I could when we were just eight people in my living room. But not now, with 45 people in four countries, I can’t do my show, and all our campaigns, and also run the company,” he said.