{"id":8495,"date":"2021-10-21T06:32:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T06:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1370601"},"modified":"2021-10-21T06:32:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T06:32:13","slug":"uhh-donald-trump-is-launching-a-social-network-called-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=8495","title":{"rendered":"Uhh, Donald Trump is launching a social network called\u2026 Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a perfectly aligned joke, <span>rumors emerged about <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/facebook-changing-name-suggestions-analysis\">Facebook renaming itself<\/a>,<\/span> Donald Trump has launched a new social network named <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Truth<\/a>. That\u2019s a bold choice, given how Trump has been accused of making more than his<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/24\/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> fair share of<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidmarkowitz\/2021\/04\/30\/who-lied-more-during-their-first-100-days-biden-trump-or-obama\/?sh=2ac12d431a89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">misleading statements<\/a> over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s team said the new social network will be a rival \u201cto the liberal media consortium and fight back against \u2018Big Tech\u2019 companies of Silicon Valley.\u201d <span>Like we haven\u2019t heard that one before. Okay, well, maybe not from a former US president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <span>ex-US<\/span> President has established a new entity for this venture called <span>Trump Media &amp; Technology Group. The company is already inviting users to join the waitlist <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">on its website<\/a> while placing its app for pre-order on the App Store.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">app description<\/a> reads that it\u2019s a social network that encourages \u201c<span>open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology.\u201d Good luck with that: as other social media giants have shown over the years, it\u2019s pretty hard to moderate user-generated content reliably and keep things civil.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-featured_img wp-image-1370607 js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM-796x389.png\" alt=\"According to these App Store screenshots, this is how Trump's social network might look like\" width=\"796\" height=\"389\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM-796x389.png 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM-280x137.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM-270x132.png 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM-540x264.png 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM-1536x751.png 1536w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM-1592x779.png 1592w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM.png 1640w\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/trump-social-network-truth-launch#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fplugged%2F2021%2F10%2F21%2Ftrump-social-network-truth-launch%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: According to these App Store screenshots, this is how Trump\u2019s social network might look like\" data-title=\"Share According to these App Store screenshots, this is how Trump\u2019s social network might look like on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share According to these App Store screenshots, this is how Trump\u2019s social network might look like on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>According to these App Store screenshots, this is how Trump\u2019s social network might look like<\/figcaption><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-featured_img wp-image-1370607\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM-796x389.png\" alt=\"According to these App Store screenshots, this is how Trump's social network might look like\" width=\"796\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM-796x389.png 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM-280x137.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM-270x132.png 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM-540x264.png 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM-1536x751.png 1536w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM-1592x779.png 1592w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-21-at-11.44.30-AM.png 1640w\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>The firm will launch the social network for a limited number of users next month, and it aims to make it open up to all next year.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Trump got banned from a number of platforms including <span>&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/twitter\/2021\/01\/09\/donald-trump-has-been-permanently-banned-from-twitter\/\">Twitter<\/a><span>,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/01\/11\/trump-banned-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook, YouTube, and Shopify<\/a>. In March, his team announced that he is building <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/of-course-donald-trump-is-building-his-own-social-media-platform\">his own social network<\/a>. <span>That was almost inevitable, given he had no other place to rant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first attempt at building a right-leaning social network in the US. Weeks after Trump\u2019s ban from social media, a platform called Parler emerged. However, it was infested by user privacy issues and <span>violence-inciting<\/span>&nbsp;posts. So Apple and Google removed it from their app stores, and cloud service provider <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/international-business\/explainer-what-is-parler-and-why-has-it-been-pulled-offline\/articleshow\/80237691.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Amazon Web Services (AWS)<\/a> also banned it.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know why Trump\u2019s new social network might not take off, my colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/why-trumps-social-media-network-will-be-an-epic-failure\">Tristan has got you covered<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Did you know we have a newsletter all about consumer tech? It\u2019s called Plugged In \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/hello.thenextweb.com\/plugged\">and you can subscribe to it right here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/trump-social-network-truth-launch\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a perfectly aligned joke, rumors emerged about Facebook renaming itself, Donald Trump has launched a new social network named Truth. 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