Trump's new social media site could be a cesspool of hate and a haven for terrorists and extremists

[Doodley]

My title above is the logical conclusion of this article:

Donald Trump's Truth Social is headed for 'embarrassing' failures, Daily Beast report says

Adam Hadley, the director of Tech Against Terrorism, a company that works with smaller social media platforms to police terrorist content, warned that Truth Social could struggle to find the resources to remove extremist content.

"You can be swarmed very easily by terrorist use," Hadley told the Daily Beast. "There's no easy solution. You need people to be making difficult decisions about content and before you even do that, you need to know what your policy is and you need a press and PR capability to deal with media responses."

Eva Galperin, the director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the Daily Beast that Truth Social not only risks falling behind on moderation but that it might struggle to comply with external regulations.

Insider previously reported that the Software Freedom Conservancy had accused Truth Social of ripping off code and violating a software licensing agreement, potentially opening it up to litigation or the need to rebuild the platform.

"It does not sound like [Truth Social has] a compliance team. It does not sound like there are lawyers on staff, or anybody even doing the basic due diligence in the same way it doesn't sound like they have anybody doing the most basic security engineering," Galperin said.

Galperin's assessment of Truth Social's future did not paint a rosy picture for the social media network. "I imagine a series of embarrassing security and policy failures followed by a very boring fizzle," she told the Daily Beast. "I don't imagine any of these sites are going to replace any of the tech giants anytime soon."

More here:

https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-truth-social-is-headed-for-embarrassing-failures-experts-2021-10

[patricia92243]

1. Can't see what the problem is for TFG. Of course it will be a

place for terrorist and right wing extremists. That is the whole point of the website.

[2naSalit]

2. Near as I can tell...

That's all it was ever meant to be.

[Brainfodder]

3. I am highly offended by that COULD!

[twodogsbarking]

4. tRrump's new social media site will be a cesspool of hate and a haven for terrorists and extremists

[Sherman A1]

5. Could?

Don’t see how it would be anything but that.

[trusty elf]

6. cesspool of hate...

[Doodley]

7. Can't stop laughing! The funniest thing I've seen for a long time!

[TexasTowelie]

15. Almost. Two things. 1) Trump is bigger than that.

2) the color matching on the T-shirt was a little off.

Great effort though and it made me laugh.

[Roy Rolling]

8. ETTD

TFG will throw every person who uses his site under the bus.

Of course they have no controls—that is a feature, not a bug.

So now there’s a site to trade ideas about how to please TFG with extremism. Are you listening FBI? The moron is serving up his most violent followers to you like that Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man”. TFG will send every one of his followers to jail for us.

[ms liberty]

9. Good. Agent Mike can watch them easier when they hang out at one place. n/t

[Evolve Dammit]

10. I have no doubt it will be a cesspool of human waste.

[C_U_L8R]

11. The cesspool is just a sideshow

The real conspiracy is securities fraud

[UpInArms]

12. They act like that is a bug

Not a feature

[GoCubsGo]

13. That's if it ever becomes fully functioning.

They're facing issues with software theft. The preliminary version of the site was badly hacked. Stock prices are in the toilet because of short-selling, and because investors pulled out because they found out Trump was involved. Oh, and everything Trump touches dies.

[tanyev]

14. "Truth Social could struggle to find the resources to remove extremist content"?

Um, extremist content is the whole point of Truth Social.