LOL -- GETTR Founder trying to blame "authoritarian regimes" for the many people inside the U.S. trolling the platform. Gettr Founder Says ‘Authoritarian Regimes’ Are Behind Attacks on the App Trolling campaign is an early problem for the Trump-aligned social media platform https://freebeacon.com/media/gettr-founder-says-authoritarian-regimes-are-behind-attacks-on-the-app/ The CEO of the new right-leaning social media app Gettr suggested nefarious foreign actors were behind a coordinated trolling campaign that flooded the platform with obscene images. In an exclusive interview with the Washington Free Beacon, Jason Miller, Gettr’s founder and former spokesman for President Donald Trump, said "authoritarian regimes may have an interest in doing things to us in surreptitious ways." When asked why foreign countries would be interested in Gettr, Miller said, "When you're pushing for democracy and freedom, you'll have a big target on your back." Gettr, a Twitter-style platform that promises to uphold free speech, launched on July 4. It took off with conservatives, gaining over a million downloads in the days after its launch. But it has also been swamped by trolls posting obscene images, a development Miller called "orchestrated and coordinated." Miller did not name the country he believed was behind the trolls. A portmanteau of "get together," Gettr has billed itself as a social media space where users won’t be banned for their political speech. But it faces challenges as it attempts to compete with social media giants like Facebook and Twitter. As trolls swarm Gettr, the platform may be forced to moderate content more aggressively, even as it tries to build a reputation as a freer online space. Miller shrugged off the trolling, saying every social media platform deals with similar challenges. He pointed to the platform’s growth metrics and told the Free Beacon that Gettr’s commitment to free speech is driving its success. But Miller recognizes that the platform’s moderators must weigh political speech against other values when assessing posts. "With some of the early spamming, this is not an environment where—we don't want people posting pornography, or religious epithets, or doxing or bullying somebody. If you would get in trouble in real life for doing these things, you'll get in trouble on our platform as well." The platform automatically bans profanity, including words like "bullshit" and "fuck." Users have complained Gettr’s algorithm also bans words like "destroy," even when not used in an aggressive context. Users on both sides of the aisle have complained their accounts were limited from posting multiple times in a given time period, or restricted for profanity. Gettr’s primary challenge is to provide an alternative to Twitter and Facebook without mimicking their behaviors. Both platforms have come under fire for banning users or hiding posts without justification, and for using automated systems to remove posts without human review. Gettr’s terms of service state the platform "may, in its sole discretion, reject, delete, move, re-format, remove, or refuse to post" content from users without notifying them. The terms are similar to Twitter and Facebook’s. A Gettr spokesman said the app will soon implement a policy of notifying users when their content is removed. The platform could struggle to gain a foothold in an increasingly consolidated tech environment. Like many other websites, Gettr relies on Amazon Web Services to host its servers. Shortly after the Jan. 6 riots, Amazon stopped hosting the conservative social media site Parler, citing dangerous speech on the platform. Some conservatives fear Gettr and other upstart social media platforms may suffer the same fate. Miller told the Free Beacon that his app is starting with Amazon Web Services, "but we have redundancies and backups." But he also said "there are certain places where we can't have a redundancy," citing consolidation in the tech industry. Miller said Gettr has a "Plan B" in place in case Amazon decides to remove it, but he avoided sharing details, except to say that a transition would not happen immediately. The platform has closely aligned itself with Trump, though Trump himself has so far not joined. The former president announced last week his plans to sue Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for removing him after his Jan. 6 comments and attacked the "illegal and shameful censorship of the American people."
https://news.yahoo.com/gettr-explodes-passing-1-5-144000553.html GETTR explodes, passing 1.5 million users in just 11 days Pollster Tony Fabrizo told Secrets, "Overall, 15% have heard something about GETTR and of that 15%, 2% say they’ve already joined and another 8% say they plan on joining with 5% saying they won’t join. So 10% have or will join out of 15% which has them converting 2 out of 3 GOPers who are aware of it. Among Trump voters in the 2024 primary ballot, 20% are aware of GETTR with 3% having joined, 15% who will join and 5% who won’t. That is 15% out of 20% or a conversion rate of 3 in 4."
And most of the users are fake accounts using pictures of models from Russia, eastern Europe, and Ukraine.
Let's see how things are going with GETTR... Trump’s New Social Network Flooded With ISIS Propaganda, Says Report https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-social-network-flooded-with-isis-propaganda-says-report Donald Trump has been trying desperately to cling on to some kind of digital relevance after being thrown off all major social networks—an effort that saw his allies set up their own social platform, Gettr, last month. The site has struggled to gain much traction, but, according to Politico, it has attracted the attention of one unwelcome demographic: ISIS supporters. Politico reports that Gettr has been inundated with jihadi propaganda since its launch, including beheading videos and memes of Trump himself being executed. The site found more than 250 pro-ISIS accounts on the MAGA network. Moustafa Ayad, an executive director at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue—a think tank that studies how extremism spreads across the internet—said that it appears ISIS has been “very quick to exploit” the site. Gettr didn’t respond to questions about the pro-ISIS material. Read it at Politico
GETTR -- home of ISIS terrorists... the pro-Trump platform is very accepting of them. GETTR founder Jason Miller calls ISIS sympathizers on his pro-Trump social media platform 'keyboard warriors' https://www.businessinsider.com/pro...n-over-isis-jihadist-terrorists-report-2021-8 Pro-Trump social media site GETTR is now home to extremist and violent content, Politico reports. Jason Miller called ISIS members on GETTR "keyboard warriors hiding in caves and eating dirt cookies." The site has already faced problems with security breaches of user data and rampant pornography. Jason Miller, the founder of pro-Trump social media network GETTR, has dismissed a spike in ISIS sympathizers on the platform as '"keyboard warriors hiding in caves and eating dirt cookies." Politico reported that GETTR, which Miller launched GETTR in early July after leaving his previous job as Trump's spokesman, is now a hotbed of pro-ISIS and jihadist content, including graphic videos of beheadings and other jihadist and terroristic content. While GETTR was billed as pro-Trump, pro-free speech site, Trump himself declined to get on the site, continuing to state a desire to launch his own platform. At least some of the terrorist content on the platform is violently anti-Trump, with Politico describing "memes of a militant executing Trump in an orange jumpsuit similar to those used in Guantanamo Bay." Miller told Insider in a statement he believes ISIS-supportive posters have flocked to the platform to post anti-Trump and anti-Western content because Trump "wiped them off the face of the earth," further defending GETTR's content moderation practices "as robust and proactive." "ISIS is trying to attack the MAGA movement because President Trump wiped them off the face of the earth, destroying the Caliphate in less than 18 months, and the only ISIS members still alive are keyboard warriors hiding in caves and eating dirt cookies," Miller's statement said. "Buried beneath a misleading and inflammatory headline, however, even Politico acknowledges GETTR has a robust and proactive moderation system that removes prohibited content, maximizing both cutting-edge A.I. technology and human moderation." Experts told Politico that extremists expressing support for ISIS and other groups have taken advantage of GETTR's permissive policies and relatively lax content moderation to spread violent and pro-terrorist content. Numerous other social media platforms, including Twitter, have also struggled to clamp down on the proliferation of pro-ISIS accounts. While the Islamic State no longer has a caliphate and is far diminished in terms of its tactical might and financial resources from previous years,it still maintains a physical presence in Iraq and Syria. A recent report from UN member intelligence services concluded that "the group has evolved into an entrenched insurgency, exploiting weaknesses in local security to find safe havens and targeting forces engaged in counter-ISIL operations." GETTR has also been plagued with a security breach that resulted in accounts of high-profile users, including Miller himself, being hacked shortly after its early July launch and trouble with rampant spread of pornographic material on the platform. Trump has explored various ways to get back on social media after being banned from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram in the wake of the January 6 Capitol insurrection. Trump is permanently suspended from Twitter, and will be suspended from Facebook and Instagram for at least the next two years. This spring,Trump shuttered his blog "From the Desk of Donald Trump," reportedly due to low readership rates and mockery over the site's low traffic and engagement. GETTR very strongly resembles Twitter in format, with trending topics, verified users, and the ability to reshare and like posts. One of the app's financial backers is fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui.
Guess what the MAGA Trumpers are up to... Child abuse spotted on Gettr as ‘reckless’ pro-Trump platform faces new scandal: report https://www.rawstory.com/gettr-scandal/ In the latest scandal to hit fledgling Gettr, users of the new pro-Trump social media platform have been allowed to share child-exploitation images. "New research from the Stanford Internet Observatory's Cyber Policy Center has laid bare the dangers of the platform's almost complete lack of moderation and identified more than a dozen child abuse images being shared by Gettr users," Vice News reported Monday. David Thiel, one of the authors of the report, wrote on Twitter: "This, frankly, is just reckless. You cannot run a social media site, particularly one targeted to include content forbidden from mainstream platforms, solely with voluntary flagging." Thiel explained that other social media platforms use what are known as "machine learning models" — such as software known as PhotoDNA — to analyze uploaded material, censoring child exploitation images and even notifying law enforcement. However, Gettr is apparently relying instead on users to report images. And, not surprisingly, this system isn't working, as Thiel and fellow researchers found 16 child-exploitation matches from the PhotoDNA database among images uploaded to Gettr. "They were also able to successfully show how easy it is to upload child exploitation imagery by posting several benign images PhotoDNA stores in its database for testing purposes," Vice reports. Jason Miller, the former Trump advisor behind Gettr, denied the report and said all images of children are screened by a human moderator, but did not explain how the 16 matches escaped detection. Meanwhile, the researchers also found that new user registrations on Gettr have slowed to a trickle just a month after its launch — and the vast majority who've signed up have yet to comment or post on the platform. "This is hardly surprising however, given that in the week after Gettr launched, the site's source code was leaked and prominent accounts were defaced," Vice reports, referencing reports that the platform was hit with a flood of NSFW Sonic the Hedgehog content, and had become a "safe haven for ISIS." Read the full story here.
White nationalists fume over MAGA ‘free speech’ site’s ban on racist term ‘groyper’ https://www.rawstory.com/nick-fuentes-2656158650/