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- Truth Social lost $58M last year, but Trump's stake is worth billions https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/07/trump-media-truth-social-payout/ 5 comments
- Trump’s Truth Social Riddled With Scammers Ripping Off Users https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-truth-social-riddled-with-scammers-ripping-off-users-report 147 comments politics
- How Trump's allies amplify his Truth Social messages to the wider world https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/trump-truth-social-posts-amplifiers-right-wing-media/?itid=hp_trending-bar_1%3Futm_campaign%3Dwp_main 9 comments politics
- Trump's Truth Social kept losing money in Q3 https://www.axios.com/2024/01/18/trump-truth-social-lose-money-profit-revenue-decline 95 comments politics
- Trump Makes Last-Ditch Immunity Claim in All-Caps Rant on Truth Social https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-makes-last-ditch-immunity-claim-in-rant-on-truth-social?ref=wrap 42 comments politics
- Feed on Tragedy: How "social" news obscures truth https://aninternetreference.substack.com/p/feed-on-tragedy 2 comments philosophy
- Trump’s Truth Social Has Lost $73M Since Launch, New Filing Shows https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/trump-truth-social-losses-revenue-revealed-finances-data-1235645818/ 682 comments politics
- Trump mocked after asking followers on Truth Social ‘Why are people so mean?’ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-truth-social-post-b2156201.html 1099 comments politics
- Trump's Truth Social’s finances may be in significant disarray,' Fox report says https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Truth-Social-may-be-hurting-financially-17398661.php 81 comments politics
- FBI shooter was prolific contributor to Trump’s Truth Social website https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/12/shiffer-trump-truth-social-fan/ 6 comments politics
- FBI shooter was prolific contributor to Trump’s Truth Social website https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/12/shiffer-trump-truth-social-fan/ 3 comments politics
- Man who fired nail gun at FBI building called for violence on Truth Social in days after Mar-a-Lago search https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/man-fired-nail-gun-fbi-building-called-violence-days-mar-lago-search-rcna42749 11 comments politics
- Trump’s Truth Social Copied Logo from British Business. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-truth-social-app-logo-b2019624.html 6 comments politics
- Evidence, facts and truth itself are outcomes of social and political processes. This does not mean facts are invented, or that nothing is true. https://iai.tv/articles/facts-politics-and-science-auid-1614&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 256 comments philosophy
- Article from Chinese social media platform on the death of doctor that leaked information about coronavirus--People in comment section demanding the truth, so far no sensoring has been done https://m.dongqiudi.net/article/1336167.html?where=copy 8 comments worldnews
- Research examined relationship between political ideology and receptivity to pseudo-profound bullshit—that is, obscure sentences constructed to impress others rather than convey truth; lowest among right-of-center social liberal voters and highest among left-wing green voters https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167219830415 10 comments science
- Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/cybertroops2018/ 3 comments science
- An Awkward Truth: Bangladesh Factories a Way Up for Women - Poor working conditions at garment factories in Bangladesh are making headlines globally following the Rana Plaza disaster, but local labor organizer Nazma Akhter argues the plants offer women a rare opportunity for social advancement. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/bangladeshi-garment-factories-help-promote-women-in-society-a-910214.html 5 comments worldnews
- SpaceX CEO Who Gave Us All The First “Free Speech” Platform Since Truth Social Now Claims a Kamala Harris Presidency Would ‘Doom Humanity’ & Halt Mars Exploration https://www.tvfandomlounge.com/spacex-ceo-elon-musk-claims-a-kamala-harris-presidency-would-doom-humanity/ 318 comments nottheonion
- Trump turns to Truth Social to share sexual jokes and calls for ‘military tribunals’ https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/trump-shares-sexual-jokes-conspiracy-theories-truth-social-rcna168872 57 comments politics
- How NY's Judge Engoron is tightening the leash on Trump ahead of looming Truth Social merger and fraud judgement deadline https://www.businessinsider.com/how-nys-judge-engoron-is-tightening-the-leash-on-trump-2024-3 15 comments law
- Trump's Official Response to Jan. 6 Subpoena Is as Unhinged as His Truth Social Posts https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-official-response-jan-6-subpoena-unhinged-1234611224/ 30 comments politics
- Truth Social SPAC Reportedly Fails To Get Shareholder Support To Prolong Acquisition https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/09/06/truth-social-spac-reportedly-fails-to-get-shareholder-support-to-prolong-acquisition/?sh=30e7fba8cf68 38 comments technology
- Politics trumps business in Truth Social’s war on Big Tech https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-truth-social/ 10 comments politics
- Trump's "free speech" platform Truth Social bans users who post footage from Jan 6 hearings https://www.salon.com/2022/06/13/free-speech-platform-truth-social-bans-users-post-footage-from-jan-6-hearings/ 401 comments politics
- Trump Slams Ivanka and Denies Saying Pence ‘Deserves’ to Hang in Truth Social Meltdown. The former president threw his daughter under the bus in a characteristically unhinged defense of himself after bombshell Jan. 6 hearings. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-slams-ivanka-and-denies-saying-pence-deserves-to-hang-in-truth-social-meltdown 8 comments politics
- Truth Social: Trump's global launch plan could face EU and Sweden legal hurdles https://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/truth-social-trumps-global-launch-plan-could-face-eu-legal-hurdle 4 comments worldnews
- Trump has launched a right-wing safe space called TRUTH Social and it’s just as embarrassing as you’re imagining https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-truth-social-embarrassing-b2020041.html 5 comments politics
- Trump's Truth Social app set for release Monday in Apple App Store, per executive https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-trumps-truth-social-app-set-release-monday-apple-app-store-per-2022-02-20/ 25 comments politics
- Donald Trump launching new social media platform, TRUTH Social https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-launching-social-media-platform-truth-social/story?id=80697031 439 comments moderatepolitics
- An inconvenient truth: the enduring popularity of socialism in the post-Soviet states https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/inconvenient-truth-enduring-popularity-socialism-post-soviet-states 14 comments russia
- Angry, Bitter, Former Congresswoman's Rant: "Spread the truth about liberals' destructive agendas, drag down their approval ratings, force them to publicly defend socialism, authoritarian gun-grabbing, gay marriage, infanticide, and we'll take their jobs away from them!" http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0509/no_musgrave_love_lost_.html 9 comments politics
- Prank exploits Trump’s social media platform to annoy former president One TikTok user concluded that Truth Social is “really easy to break into” because its audience is vastly smaller than its better known rivals. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/prank-exploits-trumps-social-media-platform-annoy-former-president-rcna76809 5 comments politics
- Trump Reportedly Wants to Abandon Truth Social and Return to Twitter | The exclusivity agreement with Truth Social ends in June, and the former president is thinking about not re-upping the contract. https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-truth-social-twitter-facebook-tmtg-1850017818 191 comments technology
- Trump's purported free-speech social-media platform, Truth Social, is hiding user posts, threatening to create a curated 'echo chamber,' research group finds https://www.businessinsider.com/truth-social-is-shadow-banning-posts-despite-promise-of-free-speech-2022-8 75 comments politics
- Donald Trump’s Truth Social Cuts Staff as SPAC Languishes https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-14/donald-trump-s-truth-social-cuts-staff-as-spac-languishes 45 comments politics
- Armed Man Who Stormed FBI Office Said He Wanted ‘War’ After Mar-a-Lago Raid. Ricky Shiffer appeared to tell his followers on Truth Social that he was “ready for combat” after the FBI raided Trump’s Florida estate. https://www.thedailybeast.com/cops-get-into-shootout-with-armed-man-who-showed-up-to-fbi-field-office-in-kenwood-cincinnati 93 comments politics
- The Launch of Donald Trump’s Twitter Clone ‘Truth Social’ Is a Complete Mess: Trump’s Truth Social platform is technically live but beset with technical problems and unavailable on Android or the web. https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3nw9e/donald-trump-truth-social-launch 4 comments politics
- Sanders identifies as a Democratic Socialist, a term many claim makes him unelectable... But the truth is the United States has already tolerated instances of reverse socialism in which wealth ends up being redistributed upwards http://pennspectrum.org/2016/01/26/aim-left/ 7 comments politics
- Trump warns that death awaits Hamas leaders and Gazans if hostages aren't immediately released: Trump made the threat on Truth Social as his administration engages in talks with Hamas over the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-administration-holding-talks-hamas-release-hostages-rcna194897 13 comments politics