The firm has also claimed that there is evidence to suggest that the app is an illegal pyramid scheme, with members being charged $49.99 a month to join.
I mean, the guy is an idiot and detrimental to society, but, that’s not a pyramid scheme. A pyramid scheme is defined by having multiple layers which get wider the further down you go with money flowing to the top. That’s just one layer with a ridiculous fee. It’s almost as if these people thought along the lines of “Tate bad, pyramid scheme bad, so we call this a pyramid scheme”, without understanding what a pyramid scheme is.
Either they omitted crucial information making it a pyramid scheme, or falsely called it a pyramid scheme, and/or took statements from a third party without fact-checking. Bad reporting from every angle.