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On Trump's new social network, TRUTH Social, you can post TRUTHs, which are like tweets, or Re-TRUTHs, which are retweets. There's also a TRUTH Feed and notifications so you can know who’s interacting with your TRUTH’s ImageImage
Trump's social network is where families will come together to have an amazing time and share their viewpoints of the world. "We welcome these varied opinions," Trump's social network said apple.co/3DXCHyg Image
The Trump Media & Technology Group's pitch deck definitely includes all of the relevant historical events concerning political segmentation between October 1996 and Jan. 8, 2021 Image
Love to watch a quick Gettr GVision vid with my friends during the non-woke commercial breaks for TMTG+ ImageImage
Trump's social network TRUTH Social has a rule banning "excessive use of capital letters":
Trump is definitely not mad over losing his Twitter account. Also the Trump Media & Technology Group's pitch desk has 3 separate slides that state his peak Twitter follower count bit.ly/3lYWzuA ImageImageImage
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 ImageImage
And here's @MikaelThalen aka TRUTH Social user donaldtrump:
@MikaelThalen Trump Jr. said on Fox News tonight that TRUTH Social is in "beta testing" for the next few weeks, with a full launch Q1 2022. I'm assuming "allow anyone to sign up as mikepence" is not a beta feature
@MikaelThalen Thank you TRUTH Social. Good to be here Image
@MikaelThalen The "donaldjtrump" account of Trump's TRUTH Social has already been hacked. Image
@MikaelThalen A hush falls upon TRUTH Social. Image
@MikaelThalen Ok, not quite a hack. Pranksters found an unreleased test version of what appeared to be Trump's social network site, made a fake account in Trump's name, and then used it to post the meme image "Pig Poop Balls." Just bringing you the important news, folks
New: Our full story on the early mess inside Trump's social network, TRUTH Social, which pranksters already defaced. The site bans criticism of itself, clings to Section 230 and adopts many other measures Trump has criticized Big Tech for: wapo.st/3aYRfkU
Other TRUTH Social weird stuff:
* Its App Store listing has lots of official logos & fake posts from companies like Chevy, which tells me they have "no affiliation" with the site
* It can ban you for posting too many capital letters. Damn cancel culture wapo.st/3aYRfkU ImageImage
More news: The founder of Mastodon, the open-source software Trump's site is built on, says it may be in violation of rules. He's contacted legal counsel. They couldn't take the site down, but "avenues to take action still exist through legal proceedings" wapo.st/3aYRfkU
Sending important E-mails with @Fahrenthold Image
@Fahrenthold But wait, there's more. Trump's social network shut down the other test site, but smart people on the Internet ran a search of its favicon and found another test domain, which I was just able to create a fake account for. This security is ... not great! wapo.st/3aYRfkU Image
@Fahrenthold They loaded up hundreds of old Trump posts (sorry, Truths) and have been Favoriting and ReTruthing them. Love to leave my test software out in the open for several months ImageImageImageImage
@Fahrenthold Here are some accounts of people who appear to be working on the unreleased TRUTH Social site. Also, a fake ESPN profile? I promise you, it is possible to build a website without exposing all of this on the public Internet ImageImageImageImage
@Fahrenthold Someone on the team building Trump's social network also appears to have made a "Fake Hunter Biden" account: "Home videographer. 3 baby mamas. Crackhead." Classy. Image
@Fahrenthold Here's their public buglist. Maybe missing a bug or two Image
@Fahrenthold Update: The @nytimes says the Trump social network's usage of NYT branding in its App Store listing "is unauthorized and we've been in touch with them" wapo.st/3aYRfkU
@Fahrenthold @nytimes Update: The second (totally unsecured) test site for Trump's social network, which showed how his team had created fake accounts for Trump and Hunter Biden, has been taken offline. It looked like this: ImageImageImageImage

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Mar 23, 2023
Today, members of Congress who have never used TikTok will be calling for the ban of a free-expression platform used by 150 million across the U.S. We're covering it all here:

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
I got lunch with TikTok's CEO Shou Zi Chew last month. He's a Singapore-born, Harvard-educated, former Facebook intern: "It’ll be a real shame if our users around the world are not able to hear" U.S. voices anymore wapo.st/40a34wq
The hearing has started. @cathymcmorris says TikTok collects "nearly every data point imaginable," which is not nearly true, as @geoffreyfowler's technical analysis found: wapo.st/3LLytRt
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Mar 21, 2023
New: Our big preview of TikTok chief Shou Zi Chew's upcoming congressional testimony. "If you give them the power to ban social media companies, you think this is going to be the only time it happens?” wapo.st/3LIPeNi
Shou Zi Chew, the 40-year-old former Facebook intern now leading TikTok, runs a company that's increasingly more influential in the U.S. than Mark Zuckerberg's or Elon Musk's. And virtually no one here knows who he is.

Free-to-read link: wapo.st/3LI5Xjz
He posted a video from D.C. yesterday in classic Silicon Valley garb - hoodie and jeans - to warn about how the U.S. "could take TikTok away from all 150 million of you"

Top comment: "You know something went wrong when the boss has to show up 😂"

tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/…
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Dec 14, 2022
New: A college student used public data to create a Twitter account following @elonmusk's jet. But the billionaire "free speech absolutist" didn't like it. Now it's gone. Elon "literally said he was keeping my account up for free speech" wapo.st/3YrxDNu w/ @faizsays
@elonmusk @faizsays It's not just @ElonJet that's suspended. All of @JxckSweeney's accounts for mapping air travel, plus his personal one, are now gone. No explanation, and totally goes against what Musk said last month:
@elonmusk @faizsays @ElonJet @JxckSweeney Here's where it gets really wild. Try to tweet a link to the Musk-jet-tracking account on Instagram. You can't. Twitter blocked it as "potentially harmful." Again, this is *publicly available data*. But it's about something Musk doesn't want people to see wapo.st/3YrxDNu Image
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Oct 15, 2022
New: Will Wilkerson helped create Trump's media company. He even posted Trump's first "truth" on Truth Social. Now he alleges the company violated securities laws and that Trump pressured executives to give their shares to his wife. And there are tapes wapo.st/3exJGH0

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Wilkerson has emails. In one, Trump Media co-founder Andy Litinsky, an "Apprentice" contestant who once praised Trump's loyalty, said Trump had "repeatedly demanded" he give his equity to Melania. When he refused, he said, he was kicked off the board wapo.st/3exJGH0
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Here's Wilkerson posting Trump's first "truth" on Trump's Truth Social profile eight months ago. “Get Ready! Your favorite President will see you soon!” wapo.st/3exJGH0
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