I'd never heard of MeWe. The FTC says it's a competitor to Facebook — so I tried it for myself.

MeWe was listed as a competitor to Facebook in an FTC case that started this week. I'd never heard of it.

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• In the antitrust case against Meta, MeWe came up on a list of competitors to Facebook.
• I had literally never heard of MeWe. So I signed up.
• It's pretty empty, but it has a history of being for conspiracy theorists.

The Federal Trade Commission apparently thinks MeWe is a big competitor to Facebook. That's what it said...