Will New Zealanders join Trump's alternative app echo chamber?

Will New Zealanders join Trump's alternative app echo chamber?
The users of Gettr, Parler and other social media apps are America-loving patriots who believe they're fleeing Big Tech.(Image: Getty)
Peter Griffin
The users of Gettr, the social media app for American conservatives, are a welcoming bunch. As soon as I registered on the app last week, a number of them started following my account, among them William Hall, the Christian conservative from Florida and host of the William Hall web-streamed show.“Lockdowns were a setup for masks. Masks were a setup for vaccines. The vaccines are a setup for social credit scores,” Hall had just posted to his 69,000 followers on Gettr, which is like an inverted version of Twitter, complete with t...

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