Jason Miller, former senior adviser to President Donald Trump, is creating a social-media platform that he says will compete with Big Tech.
The social platform, named GETTR, will function similarly to Twitter
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The platform states its goals as “fighting cancel culture, promoting common sense, defending free speech, challenging social media monopolies, and creating a true marketplace of ideas.”
The platform is targeting a July 4 launch.
A screenshot of the GETTR app as seen on Apple's App Store.
GETTRTrump’s level of involvement with the platform, if any, isn’t clear, but Bloomberg News has reported that Trump doesn’t currently plan on joining GETTR.
“I hope he joins, but President Trump has a number of different options he’s considering,” Miller told Fox News on Thursday.
Trump has been kicked off several social-media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook
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The former president was described as launching a social platform of his own earlier this year, with Miller’s assistance, but quickly pulled the plug when it was mocked as nothing more than a blog — and a not particularly well-trafficked one, at that.
The GETTR description in Apple’s
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Twitter users cracked some jokes about the name GETTR after the announcement.