It’s just called Frank

It’s just called Frank

Mike Lindell, the hobgoblin founder of MyPillow and conspiracy theorist, may go down in history as the pillow magnate closest to helping pull off a presidential coup d’etat. OK, it wasn’t that close—he was merely one of a hodgepodge of random pro-Trump CEOs and other business ghouls that reportedly met with then-president Trump to urge him to stage a Reichstag moment. Beyond that, he’s known for producing hoax documentaries promoting the election fraud myth like Absolute Proof and the ongoing $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit being brought against him by an election tech manufacturer he falsely accused of working with foreign governments to put Biden in office.

One thing that Lindell will likely not be remembered for is his contributions to the social media sphere. In March 2021, after managing to get himself banned from Twitter, Lindell began promoting a new web project he claimed would become the “platform for Americans who want to defend life, liberty, and all the freedoms that have marked America as the longest-running Constitutional Republic in the history of the world.” It’s called… Frank Speech, or just Frank for short.

Frank, Lindell claimed, would have millions of users, combine the functionality of Twitter and YouTube, and be a censorship-free haven for free speech (or at least freedom for any speech not in violation of the Ten Commandments or “biblical principles,” which he said he would ban immediately). None of this came to pass, because when Frank eventually did launch in April, it was a half-coded mess that appeared to have no social functionality whatsoever. Instead, the only content on Frank appears to be auto-playing livestreams of Lindell and other conspiracy theorists continuing to lie about the elections.