Will Donald Trump supporters soon have access to the former US president's social network?
The Truth Social app is expected to be available from February 21 on Apple's App Store, according to
Reuters
.
The press agency was indeed able to consult an exchange between the testers of this social network and its product manager, who mentioned this date.
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Concretely, Donald Trump's social network should take over the flagship features of Twitter, of which the former president was a compulsive user before his election in 2016 and then during his mandate.
Users will thus be able to post "
Truth
" - equivalent to Tweets - and "
Retruth
", that is to say sharing of publications from other accounts.
They will also be able to send each other private messages, receive notifications when certain people publish a new “
Truth
” or even block users.
On February 15, the son of the former Republican president published, on Twitter, "
Donald Trump's first post on 'Truth Social'
".
Donald Trump writes: “
Be prepared!
Your favorite president will see you soon!
»
Niche already invested
In January 2021, and after the wave of violence that had been observed on Capitol Hill following the election of Democrat Joe Biden, Twitter had chosen to permanently suspend Donald Trump's account, just like Facebook and Snapchat.
Donald Trump had therefore announced nine months later his desire to launch his own social network, which would escape the moderation rules of the Silicon Valley giants.
On February 4, Donald Trump attacked "
Big Tech
" by targeting Facebook, which he said "
seeks to destroy
" the Canadian "
Freedom Convoy
" movement .
“
Social Truth will welcome the Freedom Convoy with open arms to communicate freely
,” wrote the businessman.
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But Truth Social is far from being the only network in this “
non-censorship
” niche.
Last year, a former adviser to Donald Trump launched Gettr, a Twitter ersatz that prides itself on being uncensored.
Parler, a social network also inspired by Twitter and launched in 2018, displays the same promise.
This social network, which had disappeared from the Google and Apple app stores following the Capitol attack, finally became available again on iOS in May 2021, displaying more rigorous moderation.