OK, You Joined MeWe — but How Much Do You Really Know About It?

The parents behind MeWe model it because the “Subsequent-Gen Social Community.” Their web site guarantees “No Advertisements. No Adware. No BS.” Sounds fancy sufficient, however what does that truly imply? And, maybe extra importantly, simply who’re these people within the first place?

Though it has loved a really latest surge in recognition, MeWe can truly hint its lineage all the best way again to 1998. That’s when writer and web govt Mark Weinstein established a social media website referred to as SuperGroups.com. Though SuperGroups was closed down in 2001, Weinstein gathered up an almost equivalent management staff and integrated Sgrouples Inc. in 2011 (not almost as catchy of a reputation, for those who ask us!).

After listening to Zuck say that “privateness is a social norm of the previous” (which, yeah, yikes!), Weinstein determined to create his personal social media website with sturdy privateness controls. That’s the place MeWe got here in. By 2015, MeWe was just about prepared for the general public … and it just about sat there, extraordinary by many, till November of 2020.

Following the crackdown towards spreading disinformation and selling violence that occurred on mainstream social media websites like Twitter and Fb, a wave of Trump supporters and different conservatives transitioned to utilizing MeWe as a substitute (or signing up for accounts, anyway).

Today, Mark Weinstein just isn’t solely the founding father of MeWe but in addition the CEO, although the community is technically owned by Culver Metropolis, Calif.-based Sgrouples Inc. As for who’s a member of Sgrouples, nicely, that information is definitely fairly tough to return by. Somebody named Jonathan Wolfe seems to have been a co-founder of SuperGroups who additionally labored for MeWe till 2015, however MeWe’s Twitter account confirmed in 2018 that he was now not with the corporate.