Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s new social media app, “Truth Social,” has begun a beta rollout to about 500 beta testers who are now using an early version of the app.
Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) has pledged to deliver an “engaging and censorship-free experience” on the app, which Chief Executive Devin Nunes has said will launch by the end of March.
Liz Willis, a correspondent and vice president of operations at Right Side Broadcasting Network, told Reuters she received an email Tuesday stating that “T Media Tech LLC has invited you to test Truth Social.”
Willis was able to download the app on her iPhone through the beta testing site TestFlight, the Apple-owned product that developers use prior to launching their apps in the App Store. Users have been posting on this version of Truth Social for the past 24 hours, Willis said Wednesday morning.
Truth Social allows users to post and share a “truth” the same way they would do so with a tweet. There are no ads, according to Willis and a second source familiar with TMTG.
Users choose who they follow and the feed is a mix of individual posts and an RSS-like news feed. They will be alerted if someone mentions or begins following them.
Trump’s account shows one “truth” that he posted three days ago, verified at the account of @realDonaldTrump with a red check and with the message: “Get Ready! Your favorite President will see you soon!”
Donald Trump Jr on Twitter highlighted his father’s first post on Truth Social.
Time for some Truth!!! pic.twitter.com/jvyteDb5gW
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 15, 2022
It remains unclear whether the app’s goal of freedom of expression can co-exist with Apple’s and Google’s app store policies. TMTG was not immediately available to comment.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple’s App Store currently hosts a preorder page for the free TRUTH Social app which states, verbatim:
TRUTH Social is America’s “Big Tent” social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology
Follow the TRUTH!
What exactly is TRUTH Social’s “Big Tent” approach?
Big Tent is a new way to describe “inclusivity” in America. Think of a giant outdoor event tent at your best friend’s wedding. Who’s there? The combination of multiple families from all over the United States, and the world. Uncle Jim from Atlanta is a proud libertarian. Aunt Kellie from Texas is a staunch conservative. Your cousin John from California is a die-hard liberal. And guess what? They’re all together to have an amazing time and share their viewpoints of the world. Although we don’t always agree with each other, we welcome these varied opinions and welcome the conversation.
Let your voice be heard. Sign up, join the conversation, and share your unique opinion by posting a TRUTH, Re-TRUTH, photo, news story, or video link to communicate with your friends, customers, and the world. Stay informed about breaking news while staying directly connected with the people who influence you – don’t be shocked if they take your TRUTH viral!
Key Features
• Profile – Express your unique personality by setting up a profile, avatar, and background. Begin to track your personal connections through follower and following counts as well as history for your posts and likes.
• TRUTH Feed – Get the scoop on the latest thoughts and activities from the people, organizations, and news outlets that interest you. The TRUTH Feed contains posts from all those you follow brought to life with the help of thumbnail photos, links, and more.
• Search – TRUTH Social really starts to become interesting as you connect with others. Search for a voice that you find interesting and easily follow them right from the search list or view their profile first before deciding.
• Notifications – Stay engaged as you build a following. See who’s following you and who’s interacting with your TRUTH’s.
TRUTH Social is America’s “Big Tent” social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology.
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I’m sure the irony of the name of his social network is lost on him.
How so?
Maybe he’s not the one lost…
Actually, Trump is the one who lost, BADLY, back in 2020… perhaps you heard about it?
You lie.
I had no idea I could lol so hard…
That’s because you’re blissfully and/or willingly ignorant.
Aron W didn’t actually lie, he’s just too stupid to comprehend facts and know the truth
It’s the defining characteristics of libturds
It’s so sad when your entire existence (and that would be you and other Trump supporters) is based on a completely fabricated reality such as the nonsense around voter fraud and the election. Have you not noticed that Trump always does this? Sets the table for fraud in case he loses but is quiet when he wins. You’re all such suckers. No, sorry. Sheeple, to use your vernacular.
Tom Fitton: Judicial Watch Settles North Carolina Voter Roll Lawsuit After State Removes Over 430,000 Inactive Names From Rolls
By Cristina Laila
Published February 17, 2022 at 9:55pm
I wonder how many of those “inactive” names on the voter roll had ballots that found their way via ballot harvesting and were cast as a mail in ballot in the 2020 election?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/tom-fitton-judicial-watch-settles-north-carolina-voter-roll-lawsuit-state-removes-430000-inactive-names-rolls/
Actually, he’s the one who lost.
The brainwashed, the dumb and the blind are the ones who refuse to admit that.
Skellum, reminder: you are an idiot
Thanks for the reminder Hal.
Reminder: Idiocy is in the eye of the beholder. It takes one to know one.
If you admit to being one, given that it takes one to know one as you say, then sadly, you are an idiot. Reminder: you are a self-admitted idiot.
“ The brainwashed, the dumb and the blind are the ones who refuse to admit that.”
Thank you for describing yourself perfectly…
I think “Truth Social” belongs RIGHT up there with ‘Ministry of Love” and “Jumbo Shrimp” in the Oxymoronic Hall Of Fame.
Trumpets don’t care what you think. 75 million votes will translate to a successful forum of FREE speech by any name…
Kind of like that TV show, “Finding Bigfoot.”.
You watch the wrong kind of TV.
It’s interesting that so many people continue to regurgitate the lies about Trump simply because they’ve been brainwashed into believing them. When in actuality, almost everything the left accused Trump of doing, they were actually guilty of.
I never liked Trump’s personality, but I supported his policies. I actually respect him more now than I did then simply because of the coordinated effort to slander him and deny his the presidency as the nominee, followed by the attempts to remove him from office and take down any one associated with him.
The Russian collusion was fabricated and the dossier was paid for by the Democrat party. All of the impeachment proceedings were a joke. The Democrats, the mainstream media and even the US intelligence agencies were involved in trying to oust a fairly-elected president. Illegal FISA warrants, spying and every trick and scheme imaginable has been used and continues to be used.
When they are caught red-handed, the media ignores and protects those involved. Social media platforms routinely ban users, block posts and silence free speech under the guise of “misinformation” or “hate speech”.
If you can’t see what’s going on, you’re either living in a Democrat echo chamber where you’re only exposed to like-minded groupthink or you’re so fanatical about your cause that you are willing to win at any cost. The ones who routinely called Trump a Nazi or racist are the ones who are behaving like totalitarians themselves.
Amen and thanks for saving me the trouble of having to explain my previous comment to all above rep’liars’
Well done…
Calling it “Truth” is kind of the elephant in the room…
Also, the number of times the word “truth” is repeated throughout the materials almost sounds like an SNL parody, drawing attention to the obvious, profound irony.
Says the guy with the word “spy” in his name. Good one, spy guy.
BS Social would be much more apopros
Adios, commie-infested Big Brother Twitter censors!
Facebook’s number of daily users has plunged for the first time in Facebook history. This means people are tired of Fake News and abuse and especially tired of their political shenanigans. It could also be that people are waiting for TRUTH — the highly sophisticated platform that we look forward to opening in the not too distant future. Time to straighten out what is happening in our Country! — President Donald J. Trump, Feb. 4, 2020
M A G A ! ! !
Let’s go, Brandon!!!
Facebook is a heap of crap, I’ll agree with you there.
But it was Facebook and Cambridge Analytica that helped the orange imbecile win in 2016.
This new Truth-less platform will simply spread more lies and reinforce the brain-dead beliefs of the MAGA faithful.
You’ve forgotten the narcissists, sociopaths, and just plain evil douchebags!
Skellum: he hasn’t gotten it through his thick skullum that Democrats are the leftist, socialist set who want to dismantle America when it is the system that has broken free from oppression and thrived, despite but under heavy attack from enemies, foreign and domestic.
When Skellum is being put in chains, too, despite being one of the faithful useful idiots, only then will he realise membership of the Democrat club means nothing. But by then it will be far too late.
Hey Skellum, you came out with the ideal name for this App. it should be called Truth-less Social
Go have fun circle jerking with your fellow Trumpublicans. Having you all locked up in your own toxic echo chamber is just fine for the rest of us.
I concur but it’s unlikely they will not inflict their squalid beliefs in rational conversations elsewhere.
Ah yes, a sycophant mouth’s concurrence to FALSE narratives regarding an App not yet launched. 🙄
Gee, what a surprise.
The Achilles heel of the Left put mouth in gear before the head. So typical of the smug elitist know it alls that know NOTHING…
Obviously you have not thought this through and if juvenile name calling is all you got, simply meaningless. The platform is for all points of view brainless, educate yourself before you deliver FALSE information…
#fuckFirstThen
#FUCKTRUMP
Kronos – a poor chronicler, sadly. Gismuided and febuddled. Potentially lysdexic.
‘Truth Social’. Even the name is a lie. The world would be a better place if Trump would just have a stroke and go to a nursing home where he belongs.
But you idiots installed Joe Bidumb instead of allowing him and his half dead brain to go to a nursing home where he can get his butt wiped aa day long!
Sorry, but Trump was so clueless that he couldn’t beat Joe Bidumb and his half dead brain.
Trump prolly would have won if he had just stayed off social media in the six months before the election.
Beating Biden should have been a slam-dunk for Trump, instead, he frittered away one of the most lopsided presidential matchups in history.
I mean seriously, he can’t beat Joe Biden? It really was astonishing. For example, all Trump did during the first debate was scream, interrupt, and ramble like a senile lunatic on crystal meth. If Trump had just appeared semi-intelligent, alert, and presidential, he would have exposed Biden for the doddering old political hack that he is.
TRUMP BLEW IT!
And what exactly will Trump do when libtards start hijacking his social media platform?
I’ll concede Biden got 81 million votes. However, you will never convince me that 81 million actual individual people voted for him.
Hummm… even Hillary got more votes. A lot more votes.
Hmmm, seems AC believes in the tooth fairy, unicorns, Hillary’s 30,0000 deleted emails on her bathroom server were all about wedding plans and yoga routines, and the legitimacy of all the votes cast in US elections, because they are free and fair and not corrupted by shenanigans from Democratic scum operatives. Got it!
What-about-ism is an asinine debate tactic.
Just because Joe Biden is a dotard, it doesn’t follow that Trump isn’t also a dotard. For extra fun, Trump is a toxic narcissist with delusions of being der Fuhrer. This crazy assh*le has badly damaged and will continue to damage the political norms that permit democracy to function in the USA. Maybe you don’t like democracy anymore because it means that you won’t always get what you want?
Truth, Sorta
Truth? I think you mean “impossible”
https://iep.utm.edu/truth/
There’s enough wriggle room to satisfy any idiocy
I’M LOVIN’ IT!
One big echo chamber for Russian sock puppets and gullible folk
First, Biden blows his nose into his handkerchief and then second, proceeds to use that snot rag to wipe his eyes.
That, and the comments above, explains the mentality level of his supporters.
TRUTH = PRAVDA
PRAVDA = TRUTH
The only person in that so called news organization to keep their hands to themself is Jeffrey Toobin.
Jeffrey Boobin? Reminds me of the the joke about how “a titter ran through the crowd.”
The basis for truth is not being able to hide. I’m sure this App will completely verify the identity of each user when they register so that the user will be fully responsible for any posts they may make on the platform. 🙂
I noticed you freely did not provide your identity at the end of your post so as to take full responsibility for it.
Or is Xennex your first name or last? And 1170 is your street address or the last four digits of your phone number or SSN?
As for me, I’m donating to the Canadian Truck Convoy for Freedom and I’m identifying myself as Hunter Biden so the Washington Post won’t dox me!
LOL. Ok, I’ll take partial responsibility for my earlier post.
Take your pick, your guess is as good as mine.
Good for you, you do you.
“Good for you, you do you.”
I always do.
Why is this a story on an Apple blog?
It would not surprise me how many of the anti-Trump commenters and down vote givers who have ho issue raising their voices up high are some of the same ones who comment about keeping political news and comments off MDN. Hypocrites!
Supposition does not equal truth without proof.
And calling a vaccine, that’s not a vacccine… Where does that rank in your Gasbag Detector?
I can’t wait! If it proves to be functional and stable, I will wave goodbye to Twatter for good. No censorship, trends that represent reality, and DJT.
What really intrigues me, will everybody here on MDN denigrating Trump’s Truth Social have to bite their tongue and actually have to register to join in order to feel good about themselves still being able to continue leaving their snarky replies? Or can they freely do that on @jack’s twatter along with his fake fact checkers?
I’m sure there will be a good number of journalists of all stripes that will register to at least make sure the registration process is legit and report on it.
You honestly believe they still exist?
What’s next? Santa Claus?!
If there’s no moderation it’ll be booted off the App Store faster than Parler was.
And it’s within their right to do so as well… Apple reserves the right to remove any app that violates the terms set by the App Store… If you don’t like it, you can sideload… oh… I’m sorry, you can’t…
Could you imagine replying to this tweet with a common sense rebuttal and @jack’s fake fact checkers label your tweet as misinformation, if not down right censoring it.
Freedom Convoy, HONK-HONK!
This is why Trump’s Truth Social is urgently needed.
It’s also why I never vote for the Liberal Leftists.
Liberal Lefties deserve lobotomies
Android Patriots will have to wait a month later and desktop version, a little later than that.
Android Patriots be like….
https://media.patriots.win/post/TAiwS3pv3JMk.jpeg
On a side note, the holiday President’s Day has been postponed until America has a REAL president!