![]() (Campaign buttons featured a cape-wearing superhero, “Brain Man.”) Community leaders chose him in the late 1990s to head Valley VOTE, the secession campaign. He went on to a failed run for the Los Angeles City Council. It has been a long and somewhat circuitous route that brought Brain from his Long Island roots through a period as a Los Angeles realtor and civic activist to his new incarnation as entrepreneur and resident of a gated community in the hills of south Orange County.Īmong his community activities was the founding of the annual Sherman Oaks Street Fair. “If you don’t like it, don’t buy into it.” But he’s also concerned with big tech and government solutions that attempt to control content. He believes many of the outlets, old and new, will wear out their welcome and wither away. The “control” he referred to ranges from citizens claiming their power to consumers getting more of what they want from social media services previously known for “invading our privacy and selling our data,” Brain said.Īuthor and future theorist Andrew Keen has long decried the fever swamp of lies and conspiracy-mongering on social media. “There are many serious challenges facing us and we need a place where the people can organize and work together to reclaim control,” Brain said in a recent note to new members. Much as he did in pitching Valley cityhood in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Brain touts CloutHub with a populist refrain. (The Dreyfuss Civics Initiative didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.) And he said he has invited liberals - such as actor Richard Dreyfuss, who has a nonprofit that teaches young people civics - to come to CloutHub. He promised that the tone of the site would become more ideologically balanced over time. “I’m trying to bring people together to find common ground and solve problems.” “It would be a failure if it was deemed to be only a conservative site,” Brain said. Brain said he welcomes people from across the ideological spectrum to CloutHub. Brain has added additional media oomph with appearances on right-tilting cable news outlets like Fox News, OAN and Newsmax.īut the CloutHub founder said the site’s burst of conservative momentum is merely a quirk of timing, created when those on the right became alienated by Twitter and Amazon’s actions against Trump and Parler. The rightward turn for CloutHub appears to be fueled by endorsements from prominent conservatives such as Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs, former Washington Times editor John Solomon, actor (and onetime “Hercules”) Kevin Sorbo and former Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson. (The figures do not include customers who use the sites on computers.) Twitter claims well over 100 million active users. Through Tuesday, it was approaching half a million downloads to online devices since the start of last year, compared with 2.6 million for Rumble, 6.9 million for MeWe and 11 million for the now-sidelined Parler, Apptopia reported. Still, the mobile fan base for CloutHub has a long way to go to catch up with more established competitors. Since the start of the year, it has roughly matched the daily downloads of the video-sharing upstart Rumble both drew about half the number of app downloads of another competitor, MeWe, according to the analytics firm Apptopia. ![]() Launched a little more than a year ago, CloutHub has set company records for new members each day this week. ![]() QAnon is the baseless conspiracy theory that President Trump is battling a powerful group of elites who, among other crimes, run a child sex ring. Politics Satanism and sex rings: How the QAnon conspiracy theory has taken political root ![]()
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