MASHABLE - Guo Wengui, a Chinese fugitive living in the U.S., was arrested and hit with a series of wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering charges. The billionaire fled China in 2014 and has been living in New York. He has been sought by China's government. ~$630M has been seized by the U.S., including GETTR funds. A major part of Guo's alleged fraud was his Himalayan Exchange, a cryptocurrency "ecosystem," that included a stablecoin dubbed the Himalaya Dollar and a crypto token called Himalaya Coin.
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Bannon Ally Guo Wengui Busted for Crypto Fraud. GETTR Funds seized
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Gettr Promised Users It Would Free Them From Big Tech
GIZMODO - Gettr, just one of the interminable Facebook/Twitter clones for MAGA chuds angry about social media rules against conspiracy theories and bigotry, sold itself to potential users as a way to escape the totalitarian tyranny of tech giants like Facebook and Google. According to new research, Gettr uses Google AdSense tracking and the Facebook pixel and is loaded with other privacy and security flaws.
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Pro-Trump Social Network GETTR Becomes a Haven for ISIS
POLITICO - Aug 3 - The pro-Trump social network GETTR is inundated with terrorist propaganda spread by supporters of the Islamic State. The social network features reams of jihadi-related material. The rapid proliferation of such material is placing GETTR in the awkward position of providing a haven for jihadi extremists online as it attempts to establish itself as a free speech MAGA-alternative to sites like Facebook and Twitter.
by Mark Scott & Tina Nguyen
See full article at Politico
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Hackers Leak Scraped Data of 87K GETTR Users
HACKREAD - July 9 - GETTR, a pro-Trump social media platform, has been attacked twice since its launch on July 4th, 2021. A hacker posted a database claiming that it contained a scrape off thousands of GETTR's users. In total, the personal details of 87,973 users were dumped online. This included status, location, usernames, date of birth, email addresses. However, no passwords were scraped or dumped in this data leak.
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GETTR, a Non-bias Social Network by Trump Former Spokesman
HITC - July 5 - Led by Donald Trump's former spokesman Jason Miller, GETTR is is described on the App Store as a "non-bias social network for people all over the world." The app features similar characteristics to the likes of Twitter. The new social network also reportedly allows users to "import copies of content from Twitter to GETTR."
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