{"id":19455,"date":"2022-02-22T11:52:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T16:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=19455"},"modified":"2022-02-23T11:12:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T16:12:42","slug":"trump-returns-to-social-media-with-truth-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/trump-returns-to-social-media-with-truth-social\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Returns To Social Media With Truth Social"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former U.S. President Donald Trump is back online with the launch of his social media platform Truth Social.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The platform is now available in the U.S. Apple App Store, albeit in a limited form. Some early users have expressed difficulties in registering an account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The platform was developed by Trump Media &amp; Technology Group (TMTG). The application had previously been made available to about 500 beta testers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to commenters, Truth Social bore some similarities to Twitter, including buttons similar to Twitter&#8217;s replies, retweets and &#8220;like&#8221; functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move to develop a social media platform came after Donald Trump was removed from several social media platforms in January following the attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite his social media platform, Trump may continue to face the difficulty of using many social media platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There simply is no way to avoid big tech. Even if he has his own platform, if he&#8217;s violating their terms of service, they could basically push his app out of their app store, which would make it very difficult for him to build an audience,&#8221; said Darrell West, senior technology innovation fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-60419008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> on the BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. President Donald Trump is back online with the launch of his social media platform Truth Social.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19489,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19455\/revisions\/19489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}