GETTR, a Twitter-style platform with posts and trending topics, has advertised itself on the Google and Apple app stores as "a non-bias social network for people all over the world."
"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 said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
A writer for Salon posted screenshots on Twitter of several GETTR profiles, including those of former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and Miller himself, that were altered to read "JubaBaghdad was here, follow me in twitter :), ^^ free palestine ^^."Other accounts hacked included former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, right-wing news outlet Newsmax and GETTR's official support page, according to Business Insider.Speaking to Business Insider via Twitter direct message, @JubaBaghdad took credit for the hack and claimed they did it "just for fun," noting that hacking the platform was "easy" in terms of technical skill and difficulty, though they did not say exactly how they did it."They should not publish the website before making sure everything, or at least almost everything, is secure," they told Business Insider.Miller, however, had a notably more positive view of the incident. "You know you're shaking things up when they come after you," he told Business Insider. "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!"
Asked about security on the new social media said, Miller said the situation had been "rectified."
Miller had teased the Trump team's plans to start a new social media platform for months following moves by Twitter and other sites to block the former president after the January 6 riot where his supporters stormed the Capitol.
Bannon on Sunday described GETTR as "the Twitter killer" in a post on the new site.However, its launch had been plagued with other issues, beyond simply being hacked. As noted by Business Insider, the platform had quickly been flooded with pornographic images. According to the news outlet Mother Jones, the first post on the platform had been spammed by posts ranging from graphic hentai pornography and images of Hilary Clinton's face photoshopped onto the body of a naked woman. According to Business Insider citing the Daily Beast reporter Will Sommer, the hashtag for QAnon, a popular far-right conspiracy theory, was also flooded with graphic and extreme fetish-oriented content.Notably, despite being a platform against the "censorship" that many on the Right claim plagues mainstream social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, pornographic, violent" is something GETTR reserves the right to address, according to its terms of service.
Trump was permanently banned from Twitter and remains suspended by Facebook until at least 2023 and by Alphabet's YouTube until the company determines the risk of violence has decreased.
Miller told Fox News earlier this week he hoped Trump would join but that the former president was considering a number of options. He said Trump was not funding the platform.According to Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs, however, the former president has no plans on joining GETTR, and still has dreams of launching his own social media platform.
It is unclear, however, what these plans would be.News: Trump isn't joining Jason Miller's new social media platform, Gettr -- won't have any financial stake or participation, I'm told. Apparently the ex president still has plans for a separate platform. Unclear what exactly.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) July 1, 2021