Deplatformed is a weekly column that looks into the nether reaches of the internet—outside the big few that everyone already covers—to tell you the political discourse online. It runs on Thursdays in the Daily Dot’s web_crawlr newsletter. If you want to get this column a day before we publish it, subscribe to web_crawlr, where you’ll get the daily scoop of internet culture … Read more
The Joe Rogan Experience After barely a week on Gettr, the MAGA alternative to Twitter, Joe Rogan is already blasting the social media site as “f*ckery.” While appearing on the latest episode of The Tim Dillon Show, Rogan didn’t hold back his thoughts on the app, which apparently annoyed him so much that he started … Read more
An investigation into Gettr by the lead researcher at the Privacy Lab at Yale Law School casts serious doubt about privacy and security claims from Jason Miller’s social media platform. Miller was an adviser to former President Donald Trump. Last summer, he launched Gettr as an alternative to mainstream social media platforms. The site touts … Read more