Mark Latham is resurrecting his career as a commentator on Facebook Live.

The former Labor leader has amassed nearly 15,000 followers since launching a Facebook page appealing for donations for a website he plans to launch called Mark Latham’s Outsiders.

It comes after Sky News fired him late last week after a series of on-air outrages, including his description of a Sydney Boys High School student as “gay” for appearing in an International Women’s Day video.

Speaking to 2GB shock jock Alan Jones this morning, the controversial figure urged the public to get behind his show.

“Not this mutant strain of thinking that is all about dictatorship,” he said, taking a dig at his opponents.

“We’re telling them to get nicked.”

Asked whether the thought police are after him, Mr Latham said “it’s a question of trust”.

“ ... the elites ... they are saying we don’t trust you to make up your own minds,” he said.

... you are ignorant idiots so we are going to control the information available to you.

“It’s a new form of speech dictatorship.”

His first show to air on the social media platform will include guests Miranda Devine and Bettina Arndt.

“Should be a great show. Free TV with freedom of speech — you don’t see that too often these days!!,” he wrote on Facebook.

ABC presenter Wendy Harmer sent a legal letter asking for an apology after Mark Latham said she was a “female with a disability”. Picture: Supplied.Source:Supplied

Latham’s new website which is in the making puts him in direct competition with his former employer, which is set to relaunch the Outsiders panel show on Sunday.

His comments about Sky News presenter Kristina Keneally prompted her to formally complain to the station, while ABC presenter Wendy Harmer sent a legal letter asking for an apology after Mr Latham said she was a “female with a disability”.

In 2015, he resigned from the Australian Financial Review, where he’d been a columnist for eight years, after regularly criticising domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty.