Former Trump aides are launching a new social media platform, but the former president isn't joining it and plans his own
Former Trump aides have launched a new social media platform meant to compete with Twitter, but the former president isn't joining it and plans to launch his own platform.
The platform is called GETTR, which is short for "Getting Together," and it's headed by Jason Miller, who worked previously as the spokesman for former President Donald Trump. Former Trump campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh is also on board with the social media effort.
Trump supporters have been eagerly awaiting for a new social media platform promised by the former president, but it appears as if this is not it.
Bloomberg News reported that Trump won't be joining GETTR, will have no financial stake in the platform, and has plans to launch his own.
Miller told Fox News that GETTR will be a "cancel-free zone" with "superior technology" that will be the "envy of Silicon Valley."
He went on to say that the platform will defend free speech as a challenge to Big Tech companies who are policing speech, often with a liberal bias.
"We believe there needs to be a new social media platform that really defends free speech, and one that doesn't de-platform for political beliefs," he explained.
He said that the platform will allow users to send up to 777 characters per message, to send pictures and videos, and be able to edit those videos within their app. Miller said that he hoped Trump would join and also wants President Joe Biden to join GETTR.
The platform has been uploaded a thousand times already, but GETTR will officially launch at 10 a.m. ET July 4.
A source on the Trump team told Fox News in March that they were taking their time to get their new social media platform right because they would only get one shot at it.
Trump was banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat following the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Here's more about Trump's promised platform from March:
Trump to make his own social media platform: Sourceswww.youtube.com
Apple refuses to let Parler back on its App Store 'until it complies with the guidelines'
Apple said it would not allow Parler back on its App Store after the company reviewed the content still available on the social media alternative, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News.
The rejection prompted Parler to fire all the iOS developers the company had contracted.
"After having reviewed the new information, we do not believe these changes are sufficient to comply with App Store Review guidelines," Apple wrote to Parler, according to the Bloomberg report. "There is no place for hateful, racist, discriminatory content on the App Store."
Parler, which is favored by some conservatives and Trump supporters, was taken off the Apple App Store days after the Jan. 6 rioting at the U.S. Capitol by a mob of former President Donald Trump supporters. Apple said at the time that Parler had "not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people's safety."
Parler responded by rewriting its community guidelines on Feb. 15, but Apple found the changes insufficient.
"In fact, simple searches reveal highly objectionable content, including easily identified offensive uses of derogatory terms regarding race, religion and sexual orientation, as well as Nazi symbols," read the letter to Parler, according to Bloomberg. "For these reasons your app cannot be returned to the App Store for distribution until it complies with the guidelines."
Critics have accused Apple and other tech companies of unfairly targeting Parler out of political motivation.
The debate was further complicated when Parler fired its CEO John Matze in early February.
Later that month, Parler Interim CEO Mark Meckler said on Fox News Business that there had been a "conspiracy" of social media sites and members of Congress intended to wipe Parler from "the face of the Earth."
Despite that alleged conspiracy, Meckler said that talks with Apple were going favorably and he predicted that Parler would be back on the App Store soon.
Here's more about the Parler saga:
Parler interim CEO: We expect to be back in Apple app store 'pretty shortly'www.youtube.com
www.theblaze.com
freebeacon.com