MeWe is an American alt-tech social media and social networking service owned by Sgrouples, a company based in Culver City, California. MeWe’s light approach to content moderation has made it popular among conspiracy theorists, particularly the anti-vaccine movement, as well as American conservatives. The site’s interface has been described as similar to that of Facebook, though the company describes MeWe as the ‘anti-Facebook’
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MeWe is an American alt-tech social media and social networking service owned by Sgrouples, a company based in Culver City, California. MeWe’s light approach to content moderation has made it popular among conspiracy theorists, particularly the anti-vaccine movement, as well as American conservatives. The site’s interface has been described as similar to that of Facebook, though the company describes MeWe as the \”anti-Facebook\” due to its focus on data privacy. In June 2018, MeWe reported in June 2018 that the site had 90,000 active groups, 60,000 of which were public and open to all users. In 2019, science communicators Rachel Alter, Tonay Flattum-Riemers, and Tran Tran wrote in a column in The Guardian that anti- Vaccine activists might move to alternative social networking sites like MeWe if they were banned entirely from mainstream social networks.
In 2020, data scientist Ho-wa Wong criticized the site for its lack of multi-factor authentication. In 2015, as MeWe neared the end of its beta testing cycle, the press called MeWe’s software ‘not dissimilar to Facebook’. On November 11, Me we was the second-most downloaded free app on the Apple App Store, behind its fellow alt- tech social network Parler.
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