GETTR, the newest pro-Trump social network, was hacked on launch day and is currently banning furries.
That’s right, while you were celebrating America’s independence on July 4, the latest right-wing social media platform was celebrating its official launch…and getting hacked. (More about the furries later.)
GETTR, the new “free speech” social media platform run by former Trump advisor Jason Miller, was infiltrated and
According to
The hacker changed the accounts’ display names. “@JubaBaghdad was here 🙂 ^^ free palestine ^^,” read the profiles.
Salon writer Zachary Petrizzo was one of the
But changing some display names is not all the hacker got out of his exploit.
Petrizzo
According to the hacker, as of yesterday morning, around 24 hours after the hack, the site remains “compromised” with an “API server bug.”
There remain a high number of bugs in the code of Gettr, the hacker told Petrizzo, adding that hackers can continue to exploit the bugs in order to sell the scraped data on black markets.
However, in a statement provided to
“The problem was detected and sealed in a matter of minutes, and all the intruder was able to accomplish was to change a few user names,” Miller told the outlet.
Speaking to
“You know you’re shaking things up when they come after you,” said Miller. “The problem was detected and sealed in a matter of minutes, and all the intruder was able to accomplish was to change a few user names. The situation has been rectified and we’ve already had more than half a million users sign up for our exciting new platform!”
While GETTR officially launched on July 4, the news of the latest right-wing social network was leaked days earlier by
Shortly after that news broke about GETTR, Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg News
Despite being marketed as a “cancel-free” social media platform, GETTR has already banned a number of users. Far-right personality Baked Alaska was
It’s unclear why Baked Alaska was suspended from GETTR, although he was
At the time this piece was being published, GETTR users were complaining about being
According to
Users have been trolling the website with furry content in order to test those “free speech” values GETTR bases itself on. Sonic, a beloved classic video game character, is also very popular among online communities, furries included.