A new social media platform launched by a senior adviser to former US President Donald Trump has been flooded with anime pornography and briefly hacked upon launch.
GETTR is a Twitter-like platform created by Jason Miller that brands itself as a "non-bias (sic) social network for people all over the world".
It's the latest attempt by so-called free speech enthusiasts to combat social media bans on prominent right-wing figures like Trump.
It will do so by "fighting cancel culture, promoting common sense, defending free speech, challenging social media monopolies, and creating a true marketplace of ideas," according to its mission statement.
And while over half a million people have signed up for the platform, it's promptly been beset by problems.
Despite claiming to be a free speech platform, the app's terms of service allows it to delete pornographic material as well as anything it views as "offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy... violent, harassing, threatening, abusive, illegal, or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate."
That hasn't stopped a deluge of niche porn - like hentai and furries - being posted, as well as many stock images of topless old men in underwear.
Additionally, fake accounts claiming to be major QAnon influencers like lawyer Sidney Powell and former national security adviser General Michael Flynn have appeared, despite both denying they'd created accounts.
That has prompted 'We The Media' - A QAnon Telegram channel run by some of the conspiracy theory movement's leading voices - to write it off immediately, reports Vice's Motherboard.
"Seems like vapor. Slow to delete shill porn. Big names denying Trump wants anything to do with it. Alienating liberals by defining itself as a conservative echo chamber. Another fart in the wind," We The Media wrote.
Zachary Petrizzo, a writer for Salon, posted screenshots showing prominent accounts on GETTR had been hacked, including that of founder Miller and prominent QAnon-supporting congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
"GETTR is a direct challenge to the social media oligarchs from Silicon Valley, and what better day to declare independence from their woke tyranny than July 4th?" Miller told Fox News in a statement.
"GETTR is the marketplace of ideas. We will not cancel people for their political opinions, and GETTR offers far more features and better technology than anything else out there," he concluded, in an apparent contradiction of his moderation system boast.
However, contradicting that statement, Miller has also boasted that GETTR's moderation system stops "left-of-center people" from "trying join the platform".
Miller has also said that Trump's handle has been reserved on the platform, with the former President banned from Twitter permanently and suspended by Facebook until 2023.
But the former Celebrity Apprentice host isn't joining it, according to Jennifer Jacobs, Bloomberg News' senior White House correspondent.
Although he was previously a highly successful social media user, Trump's attempts at reaching his supporters following being banned have included the short-lived 'From the Desk of Donald J. Trump' platform, which lasted under a month.
