Truth Social
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@Mik said in Truth Social:
You expected something different?
Nah, I reckon most reasonable people assume that Truth Social doesn’t really mean it when it says it is a ‘"Big Tent" social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.’
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@Mik said in Truth Social:
You expected something different?
Actually, I'd kind of hoped they'd allow free discussion. I figured it wouldn't work, since it would devolve into a cesspit, but I actually thought they would try and be better than Twitter.
Stupid optimism, I know.
I look forward with great anticipation to hear right-minded conservatives everywhere condemn this attack on the very cornerstone of American values, and demand that legislation is put in place to stop this type of egregious assault on liberty from occurring.
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@Mik said in Truth Social:
You expected something different?
Actually, I'd kind of hoped they'd allow free discussion. I figured it wouldn't work, since it would devolve into a cesspit, but I actually thought they would try and be better than Twitter.
Stupid optimism, I know.
I look forward with great anticipation to hear right-minded conservatives everywhere condemn this attack on the very cornerstone of American values, and demand that legislation is put in place to stop this type of egregious assault on liberty from occurring.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Truth Social:
@Mik said in Truth Social:
You expected something different?
Actually, I'd kind of hoped they'd allow free discussion. I figured it wouldn't work, since it would devolve into a cesspit, but I actually thought they would try and be better than Twitter.
Stupid optimism, I know.
I look forward with great anticipation to hear right-minded conservatives everywhere condemn this attack on the very cornerstone of American values, and demand that legislation is put in place to stop this type of egregious assault on liberty from occurring.
Truth social had never been on my radar, but if it was a big enough deal and allegedly non-partisan, then I'd have an issue with partisan moderating, sure.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Truth Social:
@Mik said in Truth Social:
You expected something different?
Actually, I'd kind of hoped they'd allow free discussion. I figured it wouldn't work, since it would devolve into a cesspit, but I actually thought they would try and be better than Twitter.
Stupid optimism, I know.
I look forward with great anticipation to hear right-minded conservatives everywhere condemn this attack on the very cornerstone of American values, and demand that legislation is put in place to stop this type of egregious assault on liberty from occurring.
Truth social had never been on my radar, but if it was a big enough deal and allegedly non-partisan, then I'd have an issue with partisan moderating, sure.
@Horace said in Truth Social:
Truth social had never been on my radar, but if it was a big enough deal and allegedly non-partisan, then I'd have an issue with partisan moderating, sure.
When I spoke of 'right-minded conservatives', I wasn't really thinking of you
TBH, I was a little surprised they'd ban anybody. It's not like they've got a surfeit of users.
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Censorship (or bad tech, or incompetence) observed at Truth Social:
https://www.citizen.org/article/truth-cant-handle-the-truth/
Report on findings on Truth Social “hiding” certain posts/contents.
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Censorship (or bad tech, or incompetence) observed at Truth Social:
https://www.citizen.org/article/truth-cant-handle-the-truth/
Report on findings on Truth Social “hiding” certain posts/contents.
@Axtremus Easy to campaign, tough to govern
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Truth Social faces financial peril as worry about Trump’s future grows
Former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social website is facing financial challenges as its traffic remains puny and the company that is scheduled to acquire it expresses fear that his legal troubles could lead to a decline in his popularity.
Six months after its high-profile launch, the site — a clone of Twitter, which banned Trump after Jan. 6, 2021 — still has no guaranteed source of revenue and a questionable path to growth, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings from Digital World Acquisition, the company planning to take Trump’s start-up, the Trump Media & Technology Group, public.
The company warned this week that its business could be damaged if Trump “becomes less popular or there are further controversies that damage his credibility.” The company has seen its stock price plunge nearly 75 percent since its March peak and reported in a filing last week that it had lost $6.5 million in the first half of the year.
There are signs that the company’s financial base has begun to erode. The Trump company stopped paying RightForge, a conservative web-hosting service, in March and now owes it more than $1 million, according to Fox Business, which first reported the dispute.
The company also has struggled with some basics of corporate operation. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this month denied its application to trademark “Truth Social,” citing the “likelihood of confusion” to other similarly named companies, including an app, “VERO — True Social,” first released in 2015.
Representatives from Trump’s company and Digital World did not respond to requests for comment.
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DWAC, the blank-check company set to take Trump Media and Technology Group public, changed its address to a Miami UPS Store in a filing Friday [2022 Sep. 23].
As of Friday, DWAC had lost $138.5 million of its $1 billion in private financing.
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DWAC, the blank-check company set to take Trump Media and Technology Group public, changed its address to a Miami UPS Store in a filing Friday [2022 Sep. 23].
As of Friday, DWAC had lost $138.5 million of its $1 billion in private financing.
@Axtremus said in Truth Social:
DWAC, the blank-check company set to take Trump Media and Technology Group public, changed its address to a Miami UPS Store in a filing Friday
Dont know why, but this made me laugh.
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Patrick Orlando, the CEO of Digital World Acquisition Corp. urged Donald Trump to publicize a shareholder vote on delaying the merger with Trump Media and Technology Group.
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"@realDonaldTrump @DevinNunes let's get the vote awareness up," the Digital World Acquisition Corp. chief wrote in a Truth Social post that attached information about the shareholder vote.
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@Horace said in Truth Social:
The free market is working.
I wonder at what point Mr. Trump will start referring to it as 'Failing Truth Social'.
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@Horace said in Truth Social:
The free market is working.
I wonder at what point Mr. Trump will start referring to it as 'Failing Truth Social'.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Truth Social:
I wonder at what point Mr. Trump will start referring to it as 'Failing Truth Social'.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/29/trump-media-sued-over-dwac-merger-share-dilution.html
- Former President Donald Trump was accused in a lawsuit of trying to “drastically dilute” the value of stock shares in his social media company.
- United Atlantic Ventures alleges that Trump Media & Technology Group engaged in “wrongful 11th hour … maneuvering” to dilute UAV’s minority stake in the media company.
- The Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit comes in advance of a planned merger of TMTG with a shell company called Digital World Acquisition Corp.
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Important shareholder meeting today to decide the fate of the Digital World and Trump Media merger:
https://www.investors.com/news/dwac-stock-trump-media-merger-vote-donald-trump-needs-cash/
But lawsuits galore:
https://wapo.st/3x6nNrrBut in the lead-up to Friday’s vote, both companies have been rocked by legal warfare. Their leaders, past and present, have traded heated accusations of deception and impropriety across four lawsuits in three states.
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DJT now trading (again):
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/26/trump-media-stock-ticker-djt-debuts-after-dwac-merger.html
The ticker debuted on the Nasdaq stock market nearly three decades after the former president used it to launch his publicly traded hotel and casino company to great fanfare in 1995.
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That stock was ignominiously delisted from the New York Stock Exchange nine years later.I suppose this is DJT 2.0.
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By the way you almost have to feel sorry for all the retail buyers out there. Many of them probably bought $400 sneakers only to see them selling for $99 a week later.
As a reminder, Truth Social had less than $4MM of revenue in the first 3 quarters of last year, while blowing through $50MM in expenses that same period.
And now those poor dupes bid the value of the enterprise up to 13B. Someone needs to tell them there are no greater fools to sell it to later.
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
