A New Social Media App Punishes Users for Rage-Baiting

If there is one certainty of social media in 2025, it’s this: rage clicks rule. Hyperbole, hate, brash deception—it’s all par for the course—and often rewarded with virality. But Sez Us, an app just launched by veteran Democratic strategist Joe Trippi, believes it’s possible to change that, by punishing users who shitpost for the sake of provocation. The timing may be just right. America is entering an age of oligarchy with a rising wave of right-wing extremism taking hold of global politics. Platforms like Truth Social and X now operate as effective propaganda machines, recasting culture-war issues over immigration, DEI, and trans rights as boogeymen in President Trump’s new vision of America, which is really just a very old version of America. As the next era of social media comes into view, emerging platforms also have an opportunity to rise to the moment. Can Sez Us, which is positioning itself as the antithesis to X, facilitate a better way forward? “If you bring back responsib ... Read full article.