- Former startup founder and Amazon dev meets beautiful Russian woman in Vegas
- Whirlwind romance
- Married in Russia
- Travels Russia for 6 months allegedly having meetings with tech people and lawyers
- Comes back to Vegas and starts social network with 'secret' (eg not publicly disclosed) investors.
None of that is necessarily a smoking gun. It could be entirely legitimate and above board, and just the story of how someone started a business that's right on the edge of what's socially acceptable for many people. But if you wanted to build a honeypot social network in the USA that is pretty much exactly how you'd do it.
We know that now, but it took a lot of effort by journalists to figure it out. Parler operated for a while without anyone knowing how they were paying the bills.
I doubt it. There's a long history of self-important "we're going to create an alternative to X social media site/service, but with FrEe sPeEch!!!" sites built by largely incompetent grifters.
- Former startup founder and Amazon dev meets beautiful Russian woman in Vegas
- Whirlwind romance
- Married in Russia
- Travels Russia for 6 months allegedly having meetings with tech people and lawyers
- Comes back to Vegas and starts social network with 'secret' (eg not publicly disclosed) investors.
None of that is necessarily a smoking gun. It could be entirely legitimate and above board, and just the story of how someone started a business that's right on the edge of what's socially acceptable for many people. But if you wanted to build a honeypot social network in the USA that is pretty much exactly how you'd do it.