Remember how right-wing doo-doo head Candace Owens was seen hanging out with Ye (formerly Kayne West)? Then remember how Ye very recently announced that because he kept getting banned from Instagram and Twitter for threatening “The Jews,” he was going to buy the conservative social media app Parler? Well, Candace Owens’ husband, George Farmer, is the CEO of the failing Parler property. I say failing because, according to reports, Parlement—the parent company of Parker—has been struggling to create revenue for the application and has therefore been trying very diligently to get rid of the “low number of daily active users” app at a high price.
Upon making the announcement that Ye would be bailing out some random executives by purchasing the Get, Rumble, and Truth Social competitor, the Parler Outreach Team emailed hundreds of PArler investors and verified users about the news. It was the standard this is exciting news for us Parler folks kind of pablum, but there was one catch: They forgot to BCC all of the emails and instead CC’d them. This means hundreds of peoples’ personal email addresses were exposed.
Teehee, Ye.
Adam Ryan was the first person to point this out.
And here is a response to that.
Tech news outlet Gizmodo reports that the people effectively doxed by their own right-wing hate machine were Parler users with “Gold Badges.” This is like a tier above Twitter’s “blue checks.” According to Parler, the Gold Badge:
This badge indicates the account is owned by notable influencers, celebrities, journalists, media organizations, public officials, government entities, businesses, organizations, non-profits, or anything of-the-like. The Gold Badge is intended to protect well known public figures and organizations against impersonation. In order to qualify for this badge, the account must provide proof of existence to Parler through various means depending on the type of account.
Who has a Gold Badge on Parler? The Daily Dot reports that people like Matt Walsh (anti-trans looney toon), Tim Pool (what if a somehow less funny Joe Rogan and a somehow less intelligent version of Ben Shapiro had a show), along with aides and former aides to conservative luminaries like Rep. Matt Gaetz, Madison Cawthorn, someone working for Sen. Ted Cruz, and Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Lee. The @TrackInflation Twitter account wrote of the fallout:
“The email chain was incredible. Just a bunch of nobody verified accounts pushing their own product. Racial slurs. Upset individuals getting doxxed. One guy was pushing racist websites he ran. Incredible group of folks here.”
The big problem for conservative hucksters is that they never start with the product, they start with the con. This frequently means that creating something worthwhile is very low on the priority list. Instead, getting quick money and handing off the scam potato to the next pyramid scheme contestant is the number one mission.
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