Conservative social media platforms get a bad press. A browse for news on the latest challenger to the mainstream giants reveals just how hopelessly, nakedly partisan America’s mainstream news network has become. Headlines include: “The latest pro-Trump Twitter clone leaks user data on day 1”; “Gettr, the latest pro-Trump social network, is already a mess”; “The rise and fall of Gettr”. It has barely been a week.

The CEO of Gettr (a contraction of “get together”) is unfazed. There are only two tests for entry into this community, according to Jason Miller, who speaks with me over Zoom from inside an SUV in Washington D.C. Number one: “You believe in free speech”. Number two: “You reject cancel culture”.