Trump’s New ‘TRUTH Social’ Media Platform Hijacked Within Hours Of Reveal

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October 21, 2021, 7:59 am*

Donald Trump has long insisted he would simply launch his own social media platform as a response to getting kicked off of Twitter, and it seems he may actually make good on that threat. The former president announced on Wednesday that he’s launching “TRUTH Social” in the near future.

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The network will be part of Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), a publicly-traded company that a press release suggests will be initially valued at $875 million and whose “mission is to create a rival to the liberal media consortium.”

“I created TRUTH Social and TMTG to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech,” Trump said. “We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silenced. This is unacceptable… Everyone asks me why doesn’t someone stand up to Big Tech? Well, we will be soon!”

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Former President Trump will be launching a new social network named “TRUTH Social.”

It will be a part of a new publicly-traded company named “Trump Media and Technology Group.” pic.twitter.com/Tso6HMGGPS

— Aaron Parseghian (@AaronParseghian) October 21, 2021

While a beta version is expected to roll out for limited testing in November (with a full launch to follow next year), a test version of the site was discovered by some Twitter users, who did us all the favor of messing around with it to see how it went.

Anyone can create an account on Trump’s social network TRUTH Social using a publicly available link. I literally just registered “mikepence.” The site hasn’t even launched yet and it’s already this vulnerable pic.twitter.com/v9nPN8ibDS

— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) October 21, 2021

Was just able to setup an account using the handle @donaldtrump on ‘Truth Social,’ former President Donald Trump’s new social media website.

Although the site is not officially open, a URL was discovered allowing users to sign up anyway. pic.twitter.com/MRMQzjNhma

— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) October 21, 2021

And after looking through its terms of service I can confirm it’s VIOLATING THE GPL AS WELL NONE OF THIS STUFF IS MET pic.twitter.com/OY3C0LMDlk

— Nicole on Arknights Brainrot (@VValkyriePub) October 21, 2021

On Trump’s new “Truth Social” site where everyone is supposed to have “free, uncensored speech,” there are 24 sets of things you can’t do on the site. Check out #23. pic.twitter.com/PVTCDdUVAD

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 21, 2021

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And some raised early concerns about the terms of service as well as the company itself.

Junior called it a “BLOG”, I have seen “website””app” “social media” -WTF is it? Besides the obvious.

— someday, like a miracle he’ll be incarcerated! (@rowkesm) October 21, 2021

Sounds like a stock scam to me! I’ll buy some Acme dehydrated water before I buy. Truth social.

— Richard_K (@Richard_Katz) October 21, 2021

Meidas Scoop: SEC Documents reveal that SPAC merging into new Trump ‘media entity’ TRUTH Social run by CEO of China Yunhong Holdings Ltd. pic.twitter.com/EgMscUz9a8

— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) October 21, 2021

So, basically this whole thing is a giant money-laundering scheme where it’s purchased his stock at inflated amounts and hide the proceeds tax-free in offshore Cayman acounts? @SethAbramson @maddow @IRS_CI

— Missy the Pissed-Off Patriot #FireDeJoy (@missykender) October 21, 2021

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This was never going to be a win with anyone critical of Trump, but TRUTH Social is already getting its fair share of mockery, as are both Trump and the site’s prospective users.

The American politician who provably lied to US voters more times than any other politician in modern American history—over 30,000 times—has just announced that he’s going to attempt to brand the word “truth” as his new media platform’s equivalent of “tweet” or “post.” Seriously. https://t.co/MYqdksMXyC

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) October 21, 2021

Trump, who should be in prison, is launching a new social media network. And it’s called TRUTH.

Just fucking kill me.

— Jason Overstreet (@JasonOverstreet) October 21, 2021

And people are pretty sure they know how this is all going to work out.

cant wait for me and my friends to join, see a mad amount of furry porn already spammed on the site, forget about it, then remember it a few months later when some random person on twitter reveals it suffered a huge database hack and everyone’s info got leaked https://t.co/i1PPEXtBoL

— leo (@leosleepy) October 21, 2021

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look we gotta do *something* with all this Sonic porn

— G Swain (@Swainwalker) October 21, 2021

The best-case scenario seems to be that this company fizzles out and dies the same way other pointedly conservative social media sites generally have, but even if that happens, there’s likely to be some sort of drama on the way.

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*First Published: October 21, 2021, 7:58 am