October 20, 2022
OUTING CLUB:
Parler was jubilant about Kanye West buying it. Then the problems started. (Meridith McGraw, Jordain Carney and Rebecca Kern / October 20, 2022, Politico)
On the afternoon that Parler, a social media platform popular with conservatives, announced its acquisition by Ye, better known as Kanye West, the site emailed hundreds of VIP members to excitedly share the news.There were just two problems.Parler neglected to blind-CC email addresses and inadvertently revealed the contact information of at least 10 lawmakers and many more conservative stars. [...]The recipient list included a number of emails whose identity was impossible to know. But it also included emails for MAGA media stars like Charlie Kirk and Jack Posobiec; Trump world figures like Kimberly Guilfoyle, Brad Parscale, and Dan Scavino; and other names including Eduardo Bolsonaro, Project Veritas' James O'Keefe, Michael Flynn, Dan Bongino and Dana Loesch. POLITICO reached out for comment from these individuals. Flynn's email bounced back.On the list were GOP lawmakers too, including South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and the generic press email addresses for numerous other members of Congress.The text of the email described the recipients as owning "gold-badged accounts" and informed them of Ye's plans to buy Parlement Technologies. The outreach team assured recipients that "Parler's core mission will remain the same" and pledged to keep lines of communication open.
The usual suspects.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 20, 2022 12:53 PM