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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
Mon Feb 21, 2022, 04:18 PM Feb 2022

Trump's app 'another chapter in the war on truth'

Former President Trump has launched "Truth Social," a new social media app, in response to his ban from multiple mainstream platforms. CNN's Brian Stelter details how the launch of the app is going so far, and what it could mean for Trump's influence going forward.












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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
2. Meanwhile, he gets to spy on everyone who signs up, datamining every detail about them.
Mon Feb 21, 2022, 04:34 PM
Feb 2022

Which will really be useful to the hackers wanting to know who the worst treason weasels are.

Botany

(70,516 posts)
3. Didn't he try this with some kind of social media blog or something and he shut it down .....
Mon Feb 21, 2022, 05:01 PM
Feb 2022

.... when it had less persons on it by hundreds of thousands then the recipe site Delish?

BTW so you have to buy an app from Apple's App store for $5.00 and then give Trump you credit
card info so you will get "dinged" for $6.00 per month just to subscribe to the site? And the site
Truth Social will not even be up and going until the end of March.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
4. #FailedCoupGuy's app will collect your contacts info, browsing history, usage info, identities, ...
Mon Feb 21, 2022, 05:09 PM
Feb 2022

I wanted to read a WA Post article behind a paywall, so I used Firefox - Tools - Web Developer - Page Source and what did I see, all my personal info was part of the web page. The server has gathered all this off my computer and written it into the page code. But they want me to pay them. Fuck that shit, beware what you click on.

ultralite001

(894 posts)
5. Not an auspicious beginning for a social media platform...
Mon Feb 21, 2022, 10:26 PM
Feb 2022

Truth Social Status page indicates a partial outage: 13 hours 14 minutes...


https://truthsocial.statuspage.io/uptime

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