A big open question facing conservative “free speech” social media seems to be: Do these sites work without the heady excitement of attacking liberals?
, told me that the sites have a problem with user engagement. People might sign up for them, riding a wave of outrage after a major figure, such as Greene, is banned from one of the major platforms, but they often lose interest. The last time that he’d checked in on Gettr, Thiel said, “something like almost fifty per cent of users that signed up haven’t posted or commented on anything.
Twitter’s ban of Trump, in January, 2021, removed the former President’s ability to communicate directly with millions of Americans—including many who hate him—but enhanced the quality of his digital martyrdom. He, and any other Republican politician who runs afoul of private companies enforcing their terms of service around misinformation and hate speech, can make a powerful argument to the G.O.P. base that they’re being silenced.
Perhaps one of the more successful Gettr users has been Bannon, who uses the site to amplify his popular podcast, “Bannon’s War Room.” Bannon was removed from both Twitter and YouTube, and he gleefully played to the cameras for a Gettr
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