Trump-Related Social Media Platform;

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8-2-2021

Trump-related social media platform has become a 'safe haven for ISIS' jihadi propagandists:

In the latest setback for pro-Trump social media network Gettr, jihadi extremists have flooded its "MAGA free speech zone" with terrorist propaganda — turning it into "a safe haven for ISIS," Politico reports.

"The social network — started a month ago by members of former President Donald Trump's inner circle —
features reams of jihadi-related material, including graphic videos of beheadings, viral memes that promote violence against the West and even memes of a militant executing Trump in an orange jumpsuit similar to those used in Guantanamo Bay," according to the report.

Soon after being launched by former Trump spokesperson Jason Miller in late June,
Gettr encountered a series of challenges, from hackers scraping troves of users' private data to leftists trolling the platform with Sonic the Hedgehog porn.

Now, Politico reports that at least 250 accounts associated with jihadi extremists have posted regularly on Gettr, underscoring the challenges faced by Trump's supporters as they seek a
"safe space" online following the former president's expulsion from mainstream platforms including Facebook and Twitter.

Trump has hinted at launching his own platform, but the effort has stalled, and Gettr arguably represents the highest-profile attempt create a platform where MAGA fans can fully express themselves without the censorship of tech giants, according to Politico.
But Islamic extremists, also banned by mainstream platforms, are constantly looking for new places to spread terrorist propaganda.

"Days after GETTR was launched on July 1,
Islamic State supporters began urging their followers on other social networks to sign up to the pro-Trump network,
in part to take the jihadi fight directly to MAGA nation."

Although some of the posts have been taken down, most remain up, despite Politico's efforts to contact Gettr representatives for comment about the terrorist propaganda.
Part of the problem is that Gettr hasn't signed up for the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, which shares a database of extremist material with members so it can be quickly removed.

In addition to terrorist propaganda, Gettr features plenty of
white-supremacist content, as well as regular posts from more mainstream figures like Sean Hannity and Mike Pompeo.

"So far, Islamic State supporters are enjoying their incursion into GETTR and the possible new audience they could reach," Politico reports.

"We will come at you with slaying and explosions you worshippers of the cross," wrote one account associated with ISIS. "

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A number of prominent Republicans—nearly all of them from the pro-Trump camp—did sing up

These included House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, Conference Chair Elise Stefanik of New York, as well as Congressmen Jim Jordan of Ohio, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Lee Zeldin of New York, James Lankford of Oklahoma, ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Many of these figures shortly had reason to regret doing so:
Over the weekend of its initial launch, a hacker successfully compromised a number of official GETTR accounts—including those belonging to Taylor Greene, Pompeo, Bannon, and Miller. The hacker told reporters it had taken him only about 20 minutes to successfully break in.

Hackers leveraged GETTR’s API to scrape the email addresses of more than 85,000 users, including usernames, names and birthdays.

“When threat actors are able to extract sensitive information due to neglectful API implementations, the consequence is equivalent to a data breach and should be handled accordingly by the firm [and] examined by regulators,” Alon Gal, the co-founder of cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock who reported the dataset, told TechCrunch.

The problems continued to mount, however. GETTR was also flooded with porn featuring Sonic the Hedgehog and hundreds of other accounts featuring hentai, furry porn, and stock photos of pudgy men in their underwear.

Casey Newton at The Verge notes that these right-wing “free speech” apps almost appear to be set up with the intention to make them fail. “Apps like Parler and GETTR offered their conservative users an attractive mirage: a free-speech paradise where they could say the things they couldn’t say elsewhere,” he writes.
“It never seemed to occur to anyone that such a move would only select for the worst social media customers on earth, quickly turning the founders’ dreams to ash."

Miller’s claims notwithstanding, GETTR’s content moderation is clearly unable to handle the kind of content it is guaranteed to attract. As Newton observes:
“Most people will only spend so long in a virtual space in which they are surrounded by the worst of humanity.”

Moreover, these social-media apps appear to be a kind of con job not intended necessarily to enrich its founders but to promote a right-wing narrative that is itself part of a larger grift.

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Temple wrote:: A number of prominent Republicans—nearly all of them from the pro-Trump camp—did sing up

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Most were altos, as liberals are primarily sopranos leaping around in pastel leotards.

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directorate wrote:

Temple wrote:: A number of prominent Republicans—nearly all of them from the pro-Trump camp—did sing up

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Most were altos, as liberals are primarily sopranos leaping around in pastel leotards.

Yes!! they sang loud and clear!
that's how it is when you sing up --sheesus

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