ellauri060.html on line 932: White supremacists and members of the alt-right, like those pictured here in a wire photo from a rally in D.C. on August 12th, 2018, have found a home on the social media site MeWe.
ellauri060.html on line 938: 36 Facebook users sympathized with the McNallens’ plight, grousing over Facebook’s recent crackdown on white supremacists and sharing various platforms that would be more receptive to people who share his views. “Please look at MeWe,” one user wrote. “Many are heading over there.”
ellauri060.html on line 947: A lot of people agree with McNallen, even those who don’t necessarily share his extremist views — and many of them are heading over to MeWe.
ellauri060.html on line 949: MeWe was founded by entrepreneur and privacy advocate Mark Weinstein, a cheerful, loquacious man and a self-satisfied libertarian. He’s friendly and open, with a horse voice that occasionally crackles with emotion, and he’s also prone to the occasional fit of bombast: “I’m one of the guys who invented gunpowder,” he cheerfully tells me at the start of our conversation.
ellauri060.html on line 953: Mark Weinstein attended a MeWe Summer Kick Off Party in Los Angeles in 2016.
ellauri060.html on line 955: After Silverfish lost his face at alt-right, another hooknosed greedy Shylock cobbled together MeWe, a social networking app that claimed to fiercely protect user privacy. The genesis of the name, says Weinstein, is exactly what it sounds like: “My life is composed of me and then my ‘we'. Me and my wee 'thing' love our name. We get a lot of thumbs up on our brand: Make America Habitually Great."
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