The company to give birth to the future social network of former US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday, December 14 that it had entered into a partnership with the Canadian video distribution platform Rumble, popular with the conservatives.
The agreement provides for Rumble to provide the technologies necessary for the distribution of videos and streaming content on "Truth Social", a platform presented by the ex-president as an alternative to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, from which he is banned for inciting his supporters to violence before the assault on Capitol Hill on January 6.
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The parent company of "Truth Social", Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), has also entered into exclusive negotiations with Rumble for the Canadian company to provide the infrastructure for a video-on-demand subscription product called TMTG +.
"As part of our mission, TMTG continues to forge partnerships with service providers who do not discriminate according to political ideology
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said Donald Trump, quoted in the press release.
36 million monthly users claimed
A beta version of “Truth Social”, accessible only to invited guests, has already been launched using Rumble's (remote computing) cloud service, he said.
The network should theoretically be launched in the first quarter of 2022. Launched in 2013, Rumble has gained popularity over the past two years thanks to many conservative figures criticizing the censorship of which they claim to be victims on the main social networks.
"Our mission is to protect a free and open Internet
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says its founder and CEO, Chris Pavlovski, on the site.
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Rumble claims to have grown from 1.6 million monthly active users in the third quarter of 2020 to an average of 36 million over the same period in 2021.