By Amanda Chicago Lewis
The job offer sounded like a scam. It was the summer of 2021, and no one had heard of Truth Social yet. Alex Gleason received an email out of the blue from a programmer in Alabama, asking questions about some social-media software he had developed. Gleason got on a call with the man to discuss it. The stranger abruptly said he wanted to hire Gleason for an important project, but couldn’t share any details about who would be paying his salary or how his work would be used. Everything was top secret.
