Indicted Chinese exile controls Gettr social media site, ex-employees say

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Indicted Chinese exile controls Gettr social media site, ex-employees say
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Guo Wengui, arrested March 15 on fraud charges, was known to have invested, but the extent of his influence on the site has not been previously reported.

After it submitted a monthly invoice for $400,000 with the single line “engineering contractor service,” Chief Financial Officer Mokhtar pushed back.

Though Gettr’s funding sources remained opaque to most employees, Miller and other executives were deferential to Guo’s representatives and concerned about his opinions, the ex-employees said. posted to Twitter, Guo touted an early sale of the coins for 10 cents each and discussed them with Ken Huang, Gettr’s chief technology officer.Badejo said he left Gettr in September because of another issue: his belief that Gettr was not providing accurate information to law enforcement about its users.

But he said he discovered that the company had been answering such requests by providing altered IP addresses in which the final sequence of numbers had been replaced with the number zero.In a March 2022 Microsoft Teams chat preserved by Badejo, Huang told him that “we have an IP scrubbing job that convert the 4th octet into 0.” He said an upcoming release of the product would preserve the real numbers.

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