Jason Miller, Senior Adviser to the Trump 2020 re-election campaign, appears for the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, on Feb. 9, 2021.
Donald Trump announced plans Wednesday to launch a new social media site called TRUTH Social.
Former Trump spokesperson Jason Miller said the two were unable to reach a deal on a platform.
Miller left his Trump role to launch the “free speech” app GETTR, which Trump hasn’t joined.
Jason Miller, who served as an adviser to former President Donald Trump, said the two were unable to reach a deal regarding their social media sites in a statement that followed Trump announcing plans to launch a new platform.
Earlier this year, Miller left his role as Trump’s spokesman to launch GETTR, a social media platform that brands itself as a “free speech” app.
Trump officially announced plans for a new platform on Wednesday, saying in a statement he created it “to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech.” The social media site, which will be called TRUTH Social, is slated to launch for the public in 2022, according to Trump.
Following the news, Miller released a statement congratulating Trump and saying the two had tried to come to a deal.
“Congratulations to President Trump for re-entering the social media fray! Now Facebook and Twitter will lose even more market share,” he wrote. “President Trump has always been a great deal-maker, but we just couldn’t come to terms on a deal.”
He also touted new features on GETTR and urged people to download the app.
In addition to foregoing GETTR, Trump has not joined any of the other alternative apps aimed at conservatives and members of the far-right, such as Parler or Gab.
Right-wing activist Laura Loomer, who once said that food poisoning after eating “bad fajitas” was worse than COVID-19, has said that she has tested positive for the virus.
In a post on GETTR, Loomer told her followers that she now has “fever, chills, a runny nose, sore throat, nausea and severe body aches” and that she feels like she “got hit by a bus.”
She described her symptoms as “brutal” and said she is in “so much pain” in follow-up messages posted on her Telegram channel, The Daily Beast reported. “Just pray for me please,” she wrote.
Loomer said that she has not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and added that she doesn’t plan on “ever taking it.”
She said on GETTR, social media platform targeted to American conservatives, that she is being treated with Azithromycin and Hydroxychloroquine and a dietary supplement. Hydroxychloroquine, which was often touted by former President Donald Trump, has proven ineffective in treating the coronavirus.
Per The Daily Beast, she wrote on Parler in December 2020: “I hope I get COVID just so I can prove to people I’ve had bouts of food poisoning that are more serious and life-threatening than a hyped-up virus. Have you ever eaten bad fajitas? That will kill you faster than COVID.”
On Friday, Loomer accused the “leftist media” of relishing in her COVID-19 diagnosis. “Their hopes that i die are a clear reminder that the left’s growing outrage over supposed increased COVID deaths is all for show and political gain,” she wrote.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
GETTR, the new social media platform set up by allies of former President Donald Trump, was been hacked on the day of its July 4 launch.
The platform’s most popular verified users, mostly former Trump aides, had their accounts compromised. GETTR’s official support page was also targeted.
GETTR’s official @support page was hacked and defaced.
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Jason Miller, who founded the platform and was formerly a spokesperson to Trump, had his page taken over.
All of these account’s profiles were changed to show the same message: “@JubaBaghdad was here 🙂 ^^ free palestine ^^.”
The accounts were first hacked at around 8:30 a.m. EST, and the majority of the profiles returned to their previous state by 10:00 a.m. EST.
Insider spoke to the user @JubaBaghdad, who claimed responsibility for the hack, via Twitter direct message.
When asked why he decided to target the social media platform, he said it was “just for fun” and that it had been “easy” from a technical standpoint.
“They should not publish the website before making sure everything, or at least almost everything, is secure,” he added. He did not disclose how he took control of the accounts.”
Miller, GETTR’s CEO, told Insider: “You know you’re shaking things up when they come after you. The problem was detected and sealed in a matter of minutes, and all the intruder was able to accomplish was to change a few user names. The situation has been rectified and we’ve already had more than half a million users sign up for our exciting new platform!”
The platform is off to a bumpy start more broadly.
GETTR was flooded with pornographic images and GIFs on Saturday, Insider reported. Users spammed the platform’s first post with graphic hentai videos and images of Hillary Clinton’s face photoshopped onto a woman’s naked body, Mother Jones reported.
A new, anti-censorship social media platform set up by Donald Trump’s former aides has already been overrun with porn, reports say.
GETTR, which is led by former Trump spokesman Jason Miller, advertises itself as holding freedom of speech as a “core value.” But users have already taken advantage of the website’s lax approach to moderation, according to reports.
According to Politico, the app went live in app stores in mid-June but is set to launch officially on July 4.
Comments under the platform’s welcome message currently include pornographic images and GIFs, Mother Jones reported. Users have also spammed the platform’s first post with graphic hentai videos and images of Hillary Clinton’s face photoshopped onto a woman’s naked body, the outlet said.
There are also comments including images of old men wearing diapers, Gizmodo reported.
A description for GETTR on Apple’s App Store shows that it has a 17+ “mature” rating.
And while the platform cites a commitment to not censoring content, GETTR’s terms of service show that it reserves the right to “address content” that is “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, pornographic, violent.”
As Insider’s Grace Panetta reported, GETTR’s format resembles that of Twitter, with trending topics, verified users, and the ability to reshare and like posts.
The former president is yet to join GETTR and, according to Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs, has no plans to participate and still intends to launch his own social media website.
He was barred from platforms including Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram following the Capitol riot, and recently shut down his blog due to low readership rates and widespread mockery.
According to Politico, Miller recently left his post as Trump’s spokesman to launch GETTR, and Tim Murtaugh, who was once Trump’s communications director, also works as a consultant for the app.
