Truth Social

The Trump-backed social media app is inundated with phony accounts and features that don't work. It also hides some posts, including those with curse words.

Like Twitter and Facebook, Truth Social has a terms of service that states that illegal activity is not allowed on the app. In some cases, the app appeared stricter than Twitter. While Twitter allows some pornographic content, Truth Social forbids sexual content and language altogether, according to its terms of service. But Nathaniel Persily, a professor at Stanford Law School, said the notion that Truth Social could be an uncensored social network was ultimately far-fetched. Ms. Wu worked with Twitter to develop safety guidelines after Gamergate, the 2014 internet campaign to troll critics of the male-dominated gaming industry. The former president has posted only one Truth and that was back in February: “Get Ready! Your favorite President will see you soon!” To date, he has accrued 1.88 million followers. Trying to do a keyword search for a Truth was nonfunctional. And while some posts that were prohibited on Twitter were available on Truth Social, other types of posts were hidden because of curse words. After choosing a user name and avatar (I uploaded a picture of my Labrador), I began my Truth Social experience. I decided to wade into this stew by testing Truth Social. Despite its hype, the app had a glitchy debut. The app’s surge in popularity this week caught the attention of Mr. Musk, a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist. Truth Social has long positioned itself as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook, both of which famously barred Mr. Trump from their sites after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol last year. At the same time, there is more uncertainty about Twitter. Some Twitter users deactivated their accounts this week after the news broke that Mr. Musk was buying the site and questions arose about how he might change the platform.

Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter has created an unexpected race to the right with the former president.

In that light, it’s not surprising that Twitter might try to change its public perception to appeal to the same group of users. It’s Musk agreeing with the complaints about Twitter — so much so that he decided to buy the company and affect those changes. By migrating to Rumble’s hosting platform, though, the company will be able to “scale significantly,” it said in a news release — adding “on a new and cancel-culture-free cloud platform.” (By “cloud platform,” the company meant a separate company that operates the servers on which Truth Social’s content will live.) Musk replied that the situation “[s]ounds pretty bad,” which, as presented, it does — since it’s meant to sound bad and is not demonstrably true. Gadde is Twitter’s top attorney and was on the podcast in 2019 to discuss the site’s moderation policies, for which she is responsible. The meme also focused a great deal of hostility on Gadde, as The Post has reported. This is the same reason that Trump himself was suspended from Twitter: not because of his opinions but out of concern that he might again foment violence in Washington. Some users erroneously thought this was somehow Musk at the controls or, slightly more feasibly, Twitter tweaking its algorithms to be more conservative-friendly. He wasn’t complimentary, really, suggesting that “Truth Social” was a bad name and “Trumpet” a better one, which isn’t necessarily wrong. The result, at least for now, is that the social media giant appears to be trying to compete with Trump’s tiny start-up for the same pool of attention. The Newsmax host pointed to the social media platform Parler being booted from its cloud-service providers, something that Nunes agreed wouldn’t happen to Truth Social. And the news about Musk’s acquisition of Twitter gave him even more reason to be booked as a guest.

“Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censored free speech,” Mr Musk tweeted. “Should be called Trumpet instead!” Mr Musk brought up Mr Trump's ...

“We’re taking in millions of people, and what we’re finding is that the response on TRUTH is much better than being on Twitter,” Mr Trump said. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH. I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH,” he said.

Elon Musk said that former US President Donald Trump's social networking site, 'TRUTH Social' is beating TikTok and Twitter on the Apple Store.

Trump is quoted by the site as saying, “"I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH," Trump told Fox News. "I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH." He will formally join the TRUTH Social over the next seven days. Billionaire Elon Musk has indicated that former US President Donal Trump's social media platform 'Truth Social' is on the top of the chart on the Apple Store. Not just that, it is beating TikTok too! But, after Musk took over the microblogging site Twitter on Tuesday, it was being speculated that Trump’s Twitter account will be reinstated- currently, it is banned.

Elon Musk, who could soon own Twitter, said Donald Trump's Truth Social should instead be named 'Trumpet'.

Since reaching the deal, Musk has already tweeted critically about Twitter executives and lawyers, despite the buyout deal stating he must not ‘disparage the company or any of its representatives’. ‘We’re taking in millions of people, and what we’re finding is that the response on TRUTH is much better than being on Twitter,’ Trump said. He has yet to formally join Truth Social, but said he would do so over the next week.

Shares of Digital World Acquisition jumped 24% Wednesday as downloads of Trump's social network spiked almost tenfold.

Details surrounding the former president’s media venture have been scarce and the rollout of Truth Social was plagued by snags and delays. Wednesday’s rally started in premarket hours, following a tweet by Elon Musk, who is purchasing competitor Twitter Inc., in which he said that Truth Social passed both Twitter and TikTok on the Apple App Store overnight. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. leaped 24% Wednesday as thousands more users gained access to Truth Social’s full functionality and downloads jumped almost tenfold.