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Jason Miller, former senior adviser to President Donald Trump, is creating a social-media platform that he believes will compete with Big Tech.
The platform, named GETTR, will function similarly to Twitter
TWTR,
according to Politico, and has a mission statement that resembles some classically conservative talking points.
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.”
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The platform is set to launch of July 4.
A screenshot of the GETTR app as seen on Apple’s App Store.
GETTR
Trump’s involvement with the platform 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
FB,
and Snapchat
SNAP,
and reportedly is “moving forward” with creating his own social-media platform.
The GETTR description in Apple’s
AAPL,
App Store calls it a “non-bias social network for people all over the world.” The app is rated “M” for mature, meaning it is recommended for users 17 and older.
A few Twitter users cracked some jokes about the name GETTR after the announcement.
Miller recently tried to replicate Trump’s former Twitter feed with a blog called “From The Desk of Donald Trump,” but the site received little web traffic, and shut down in less than a month.
