Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s social media app Truth Social, available since February via Apple’s App Store, has not yet been approved for distribution on Alphabet Inc’s Google Play Store for Android phones.
Android phones comprise about 40% of the U.S. smartphone market. Without the Google and Apple stores, there is no easy way for most smartphone users to download Truth Social.
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“On August 19, we notified Truth Social of several violations of standard policies in their current app submission and reiterated that having effective systems for moderating user-generated content is a condition of our terms of service for any app to go live on Google Play,” Google said in a statement.
Google said it has expressed concerns to Truth Social about violations of its Play Store policies prohibiting content like physical threats and incitement to violence.
Truth Social does have “sensitive content” banners that appear before some posts that read “This content may not be suitable for all audiences,” but content that threatens violence remains on the platform.
Truth Social could offer Android users a version of its app via its website or other channels — an option not available to developers on Apple’s iOS mobile operating system — but the company has not done so.
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Run by libturds. No surprise. Dumbest people in the country
Hahahahaha. Till you spoke
Little girl at the zoo pointing: “Oh look, Mommy. A fucking idiot calling an American stupid. That’s so funny!”
All Trump has to do is change the name to either FALSE or LYING POS (in reference to themselves of course) for the misinformation aims of such an app to actually BE truthful.
“How stupid can you be?” Is a question, NOT a challenge!
Your screen name like so many other Leftist naming convention constructs is highly misleading. Examples: National Organization For Women and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Works only if you are a liberal activist or vote Democrat leaving out the majority of citizens.
But my point of reply, Truth Social is being attacked and censored by the same Leftist disinformation machine that censored, canceled and swung the 2020 election.
Guess next you will tell the truth about the “FALSE or LYING POS” Clintons, Comey, Biden, et al.
Correct? …
When is Truth Social being taken off the App Store? Boycott of Apple products is in order. Democracy & our Republic is more important than a phone everyone is comfortable with. Make a choice.
See ya at midterms!
Funny thing, the site is hosted by a hard-core Trumpist, and run by loyalists, not Libtards. That’s the only reason it’s still up and running, since Mr. Trump has not paid them for the past six months. Truth social is in financial trouble, not enough people visiting the site, and the numbers continue to drop. Investors are having second thoughts. Big surprise, Mr. Trump not paying his bill.
OMG! How will they get the untruth?
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/fcbf1521-602c-3ac6-b75c-1f757ee8687a/donald-trump-s-social-media.html
Sam’s shrill whine shows how hard it is to keep attempting to defend the notorious lying loser. Look on the bright side Sam, even though you’re outnumbered at least 4:1 by people who see through the con, and the vast majority of people in every recent poll support conviction for violating federal laws, you should be happy that one more bankruptcy isn’t going to affect your fantasy idol’s batting average. His best people stuffed their pockets while stepping off their latest sinking ship. Same game plan as every prior con.
Maybe, just maybe, Truth Social could have survived if all these supposed disenfranchised 2020 maga voters actually existed, and if the figurehead actually cared about running a company that does what it claims. Unfortunately for his latest scam, the vast majority of people can see what’s going on.
You magats want a T-Rump Steak with your weltschmerz?
You can’t reason with MAGA types no matter how many facts or logic arguments you give them. They just scream back that you’re a Libtard (especially me with my screen name that is designed to bait them) while obfuscating with whataboutisms. Sadly, even though they are a minority in the US, the Electoral College and gerry mandering has given them more power than they should have as they jump around unconcerned about how the US is moving towards being a autocracy while not thinking about how what comes around, goes around.
They may have the upper hand, to a point, at the moment, but political landscapes shift and one day there will be a government in full control that they don’t like and what stops that administration from doing things they don’t like?
PS: My name is designed to bait but really, I would love to just talk Mac. The name also just popped into my head one day and I thought it was funny 🙂
FBI probably threatened Google, like they did Facebook.
Apple will probably magically “discover” something they don’t like on Truth Social and pull it, even though 100X worse exists at all times in 100X the quantity on Twitter, of course.
Twitter only censors conservatives, so it’s 100% approved by the leftist establishment Democrats, corrupt FBI, Apple, CCP, Tim Cook, Google, Facebook, etc.
You got that right….
Bah, it’s just Mastodon. Any client on Android can use it.
So what? there isn’t a need for a native app anyways.
Google hates Trump what a surprise.They also only want liberals in the country. Exactly why I to use nothing of Google‘s
Well, in fact, the majority of Americans hate Trump and the fact that he lost the popular vote in both elections by record amounts demonstrates that. Canadians and the British hate him too.
Google does lots of things right.
Applied last April. Got to set up my account in late July, one post later – a picture of Biden with the question “ is this the President?” Banned 4 hrs later! It’s outrageously and egregiously censored to exclude anything other than adulatory Trump echo chamber memes.
Free speech anyone? Seems it’s negotiable Like all other truths.
Nope. ETTD… Everything Trump Touches Dies and Truth Social is in its death throes. Trademark rejected by the USPTO No income..Can’t pay its bills. Commercial launch indefinitely delayed. Digital World Acquisition Corp. under investigation. Share price plummeted. Devin Nunes $1m salary could be saved I suppose if they employed his Cow instead – couldn’t do any worse.
And the kicker?…You’ll blame the DoJ, the FBI, President Joe Biden, Liberals, Democrats…everyone but your own gullible selves delusional fantasies.
Another great day.
“Everything Trump Touches Dies and Truth Social is in its death throes.”
Yes, indeed. Same as the present economy with 40-year high inflation, record gas and food prices, record low approval poll numbers and more. Oh wait, that’s Biden.
“everyone but your own gullible selves delusional fantasies.
Another great day.”
Once again, the mentally deficient bear their souls in a cry for help…
Help is here.
“U.S. President Joe Biden’s public approval rating fell modestly this week, a poor sign for his Democratic Party’s hopes in the Nov. 8 midterm elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday.
The two-day national poll found that 38% of Americans approve of Biden’s job performance.
Biden’s overall approval rating has been below 50% for over a year as Americans have grappled with high rates of inflation and an economy scarred by the COVID-19 health crisis. Biden’s lowest ratings of 36% – in four weekly polls in May, June and July”
More “great” days to come…
The left: “if you don’t like the censorship then build your own new social platforms.”
The right: “okay, no problem”
The left: “yeah, we need to shut down those new social platforms.”
That was not what Gotcha said. Truth social supposedly stands for free speech, but anything other than adulation for Donald Trump gets immediately banned. This is exactly the kind of censorship that the right complain about. I guess censorship is okay as long as it isn’t your views being deleted.
Obviously, it is his platform and he can post what he likes on it.
However, when dangerous misinformation and calls for violence are made to enrage the ignorant masses, then at what point do you say that it needs to be censored?
If you say that free speech should not censored, then why are counter views from the left being deleted?
Let’s turn the argument around and apply it to more mainstream social media. The right complain they are being censored and pushed off the platforms. I think they have a valid claim, to a point (I hate woke BS as well), but when you look at the content being deleted, it is obvious misinformation or hateful speech. Is this censorship of the right or censorship of crap?
As an international observer I can see that the US has a real problem with bias in the media. Democrats only watch the news channels with news and opinion from the left and Republicans only watch news and opinion from the right.
I regularly switch between CNN & Fox, each of the channels only interview ‘experts’ that give the opinions that suit their agenda, counter views are never sought. (Fox seems much worse than CNN) Presenters start their diatribes and rants and even ‘testify’ for their favourite politicians.
That is not news, that is propaganda!
If you think FOX News has worse bias than CNN, seek help.
You’re obviously a leftist who can’t see the bias clearly.
We Are in the Midst of a Preemptive Coup Because They Don’t Have Any Other Way to Stop Trump
“We are in the midst of a coup, a preemptive coup, which is underway between Washington DC, Mar-a-Lago, and every single state in this nation. They banned a sitting president from social media, impeached him two times, jailed his supporters, and now they’ve raided his home. Then they go on TV, and they call us, they call you a fascist,” Human Events Daily’s Jack Posobiec said.
“Now the New York Times Editorial Board has come out and they’re giving air cover to the preemptive coup saying ‘Go right ahead. You have to indict him for the good of the nation. For America to survive for national security to exist. We must indict this man. We must indict President Trump. The only way to stop fascism and defend democracy is to indict President Donald J. Trump, to indict his supporters, to jail them, to criminalize them and to make them otherwise unacceptable in polite society.’ ”
“You get it? Right? You see what’s happening? Every day there’s another cancellation. Every day someone else gets banned. Libs of TikTok just got locked out on Twitter again. Understand what part of the movie you’re in,” Posobiec cautioned.
Posobiec noted that Trump, for his part, has called on FBI whistleblowers to step forward. These are the 14 agents that are working with the House Judiciary Committee. He called for a fund to be set up to help those whistleblowers who did come forward, noting that the people in charge in the FBI, the DOJ, and the Biden administration “don’t care about the truth anymore. They don’t care about the law anymore.”
As to the documents that were seized from Mar-a-Lago, some have been found to be under the seal of attorney/client privilege. A Florida judge has said that they will consider the appointment of a “special master” to go through those documents. The Department of Justice has said that since the FBI already went through them, there’s no need.
“You can’t unring the bell,” Posobiec said. “The Department of Justice has already raided these documents. It was a fishing expedition.
“And if I hear one more person complain,” he said, about what was and wasn’t classified information contained within those boxes, “that’s not what this is about.” The DOJ, Posobiec said, is “going after the Russia gate documents.” This despite the allegations that Trump colluded with Russia to steal a presidential election having been disproven. But even that is not the main goal, posits Posobiec.
“They want to smear him so they can stop him. They want to shut him down. They want to shut down this movement and they want conservatives in this country to be outlawed. They don’t want you to be able to have a voice and they certainly don’t want you to be able to vote,” he said.
“The question is: are we going to do anything about it? Are we—politically—going to stand up and say ‘no more’? ‘We want access to our rights and you are depriving us of our rights. You’re depriving us of the ability to live and interact freely in this country. And you’re doing so deliberately day after day and you’re doing so in the name of defending democracy.’
“We see through you. We see through you con men, you confidence men, we see through your tricks and we’re not falling for it anymore,” Posobiec said in conclusion.
Better a so-called “preemptive coup” than the real thing, which Trump and his followers attempted from November through J6.
“We see through you. We see through you con men, you confidence men, we see through your tricks and we’re not falling for it anymore.”
— Human Events Daily’s Jack Posobiec
BTW, that goes DOUBLE for you @WriterGuy, Trump HATER and Democrat shill …
If all you’ve got to back you is a proven liar and conspiracy theorist like Jack Psoobiec, your side is in real trouble…
From Wikipedia (I know, it’s all “fake news” right?):
“Posobiec has promoted many falsehoods, leading to Philadelphia calling him the “King of Fake News” in 2017. He was one of the most prominent promoters on social media of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory… He live-streamed an investigation of the pizzeria and was asked to leave after attempting to broadcast a child’s birthday party being held in a back room. Posobiec later said he had always thought the Pizzagate theory was “stupid” and had filmed his visit to debunk it.[21]
Posobiec attempted to discredit anti-Trump protesters in November 2016 by planting a sign at a protest reading “Rape Melania”…. Posobiec claimed without evidence that Disney had re-written scenes in the Star Wars movie Rogue One to add “Anti Trump scenes calling him a racist”, and called for a boycott of the Star Wars franchise….
Posobiec falsely said that former FBI director James Comey, at a United States Senate hearing on May 17, 2017, “said under oath that Trump did not ask him to halt any investigation”. … Posobiec promoted the discredited conspiracy theory that Seth Rich had leaked e-mails from the Democratic National Committee to WikiLeaks. Posobiec promoted a hoax that CNN had published and then deleted an article defending Bill Maher’s use of a racial slur.
In June 2017, shortly after Republican congressman Steve Scalise was shot and injured during a baseball practice, along with four others, Posobiec tweeted that it was a terrorist attack and blamed comments from liberal anti-Trump individuals. Later, he falsely tweeted that former United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch had called for “blood in the streets” the previous March and that Bernie Sanders had ordered his followers to “take down” Trump.
In December 2017, Posobiec, along with Cernovich, The Gateway Pundit, and InfoWars, promoted a false theory that a passenger train derailment near Dupont, Washington, was linked to the Antifa anti-fascism movement.
In October 2019, after Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman… testified in Congress about President Trump requesting that the Ukrainian President investigate his political rival Joe Biden, Posobiec falsely claimed that Vindman had been advising the Ukrainian government on ways to prevent Trump from implementing his foreign policy goals.
In June 2020, during the protests against racism and police brutality in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, Posobiec falsely claimed that there were pipe bombs planted at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. and that “federal assets [were] in pursuit”. There were no pipe bombs nor was there any evidence that any “federal assets” investigated.
@WriterGuy, judging Jack Psoobiec by his words above — absolutely correct! The fact you are enraged regarding truths, failure to CANCEL him with past history — ALL the better.
Now, I can easily make a list of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden (to name a few Democrats) lies, gaffes, accusations and conspiracies.
Unfortunately the list would be too long and waste too much time and not have any influence on Mr. DOUBLE STANDARD…
“You’re obviously a leftist who can’t see the bias clearly.”
I can most definitely see the left bias of CNN, that is why I switch to Fox to get an alternative view.
I just find some of the presenters on Fox are not just biased, they are extremely biased.
BTW. I live in NZ and usually vote for the Centre/Right party.
OK Tucker.
You can side load on android. Google doesn’t have exclusive control on stores.
Truth not paying their bills will close them sooner.
Google sucks!