Trump launches his personal social media platform, TRUTH Social – TechCrunch
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Trump launches his personal social media platform, TRUTH Social – TechCrunch

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Trump launches his personal social media platform, TRUTH Social – TechCrunch

Former U.S. President Donald Trump introduced Wednesday he’ll launch his personal social media platform, TRUTH Social, in accordance with a press release by Trump Media and Know-how Group (TMTG). 

Trump’s new social community is ready to launch a beta model in November, which might be obtainable to invited company solely. Its nationwide rollout is anticipated within the first quarter of 2022, the press launch stated.  

Trump signaled his aspirations to create a rival social media platform after he was kicked off from a number of social media platforms. Earlier this yr, main social media corporations together with Twitter, Fb, and YouTube, banned or suspended Trump for violating their insurance policies following the Jan 6 assault on the Capitol. 

“I created TRUTH Social and TMTG to face as much as the tyranny of Massive Tech. We reside in a world the place the Taliban has an enormous presence on Twitter, but your favourite American President has been silenced,” Trump stated within the assertion.

Trump stated that the corporate’s mission is to create “a rival to the liberal media consortium and battle again in opposition to the Massive Tech corporations.” 

TRUTH Social app might be launched by means of a brand new firm fashioned by a merger of the Trump Media and Know-how Group and Digital World Acquisition Corp, listed on the Nasdaq, as per its assertion.  

(By the best way, advertising and marketing supplies for TRUTH’s iOS app present a screenshot with an inventory of posts from publications together with The New York Instances, Selection, Fox Information and TechCrunch. The headline displayed subsequent to our emblem has by no means appeared on this web site and TechCrunch doesn’t have an account on TRUTH.)