Trump launches his own social network called 'Truth Social'
The former president, who is still banished from Facebook and Twitter, aims to compete with both companies through his platform
Although it seems paradoxical, Donald Trump, the former president of the United States who according to the Washington Post fact-checker was wrong more than 30,500 times during his four years in office, has announced that he is launching his own social network called Truth Social. ).
The platform will be managed by the media company called Trump Media Technology Group (TMTG), which will also have a subscription video service. According to a statement from the former president, his mission is to "create a rival to the progressive media consortium and fight the 'Big Tech' companies in Silicon Valley." "We live in a world where the Taliban have a large presence on Twitter, but their favorite American president has been silenced," Trump laments, adding: "This is unacceptable."
Trump accuses these companies of "having used their power unilaterally to silence opposition voices in the United States." For this reason it has created its own social network, the purpose of which is to "promote an open, free and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology", reads its slogan on the Apple App Store, where it will be available for download in February of 2022 and will be the first product to see the light of the new company of the New York tycoon. However, Trump assured that the application will start working in a test version from November.
Despite its intentions not to discriminate against anyone, the platform team reserves the right to prohibit users from bothering any of the employees who work on it and statements that "belittle, tarnish or harm us, in our opinion , to us and / or to the portal ", in accordance with its terms of service. It is not clear who the "we" refers to.
In addition to the social network, the former president, who continues to control the Republican Party and who flirts with the idea of running again in the presidential elections in 2024, announced the future launch of a subscription video platform. This platform will be called TMTG + and will include "entertainment programming, news, podcast and more."
Since he had to leave power last January, the idea of creating his own media company has flown over the environment closest to Trump with the aim of communicating directly with his followers. Especially after the large social networks such as Twitter, Facebook or YouTube suspended their accounts after the assault on the Capitol on January 6, considering that the former president encouraged the insurrection with his messages on these platforms.
