The inevitable has happened. Donald Trump’s social network, TRUTH, has just launched on the US App Store.
A lot has happened since Trump announced this new venture last October. Last December, Investors pumped $1 billion into the Digital World Acquisition Corp, a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) that aimed to fund the Truth platform. Rumors about the social network’s imminent launch surfaced in January without a specified go-live date, and the firm subsequently started testing the app in a closed beta with around 500 users.
All of this started last year, when Trump was removed from major platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Shopify — while he was in office as President.
Since then, he and his supporters have demanded a platform that fights “the tyranny of Big Tech.” Donald Trump Jr. even urged Elon Musk to build one, but I guess he was busy somewhere else.
After no one heeded the call, Trump & Co. decided to build their own platform, so here we are.