Why Gwyneth Paltrow Is to Blame for Whisper's Failure as a Media Source

whisperEarlier this summer, Whisper — the creepers app that allows people to send and receive meme-ified messages anonymously — wanted to become a viable news source.

The idea: if you have real, possibly unflattering news to share and don’t want to be outed by the soothsayers at TMZ, you post it on Whisper.

Also: a legitimate source is now some dude with a smartphone, a happy trigger-finger, and an axe to grind.

Then, came along Gwyneth Paltrow to ruin all the fun. 

Whisper claims to be “the safest place on the Internet” because people can say what they want about whoever they want and no one can be tracked judged for a single word.

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