WaPo: Gettr Is Controlled By Arrested Chinese Fugitive

The Washington Post reports:

An exiled Chinese tycoon indicted in New York earlier this month in a billion-dollar fraud case controls the conservative social media platform Gettr and used it to promote cryptocurrencies and propaganda, former employees have told The Washington Post. They said the arrested expatriate, Guo Wengui, and his longtime money manager, William Je, called the shots at the company while Donald Trump senior adviser Jason Miller was its chief executive and public face.

Gettr doled out tens of thousands of dollars to right-wing figures including Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon, sent money to contractors affiliated with Guo, and altered information on Gettr users that law enforcement agencies had sought. The revelations show that a man accused of massive fraud on two continents climbed high into Trump’s political sphere and dictated messaging at a social media site that reaches millions of Americans.

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In 2021, Guo was exposed as funding a massive QAnon and anti-vaccine network of websites.

Before Bannon’s arrest on Guo’s yacht for scamming border wall donors, the pair made news when they hired half a dozen banner planes to fly anti-China messages around the Statue of Liberty. Bannon and Guo claim to be operating a Chinese government-in-exile they’re calling the New Federal State of China.

In October 2020, Guo was accused of sending operatives to threaten competing Chinese dissidents in the US.

Indicted Chinese exile controls Gettr social media site, ex-employees say https://t.co/5plKBveS6P

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