There are social networks that have been launched to try to change everything. But in the case of Truth Social, the network launched by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), American media company led by Donald Trump, the thing is quite different.
The impulse of this application had everything to do with its expulsion from Facebook and the extinct Twitter, current X. “We live in a world where the Taliban have a great presence on Twitter, but Its favorite US president has been silenced. This is unacceptable, “the current American president said in 2021.
The launch of Truth Social was not done until February 21, 2022. But a year earlier, after being baned from both social networks by their words by the assault on the Capitol, there was a movement by the own republican leader and their closest to try to boost another social network.
First it was Talka social network that became very fashionable then by the followers, the environment close to Trump and some conservative leaders, both outside of Spain, to try to fight against the “censorship“Of the other applications and as a sign of”refugio“For freedom of expression.
But the interest in the social network born in 2018 was decreasing Until the Republican leader brought to light Truth Social. A new speaker for freedom of expression and for users to live surrounded by “truth.” A reality that, once within the application, far exceeds fiction.
Since dawn, app-etece
It was in February 2022, four months after Trump announced the launch of this application, when he saw the light. He first came out in Apple’s App Store, with an irregular start, but became the most downloaded free application of the Cupertino company based in Cupertino.
His arrival at Google Play and the Android devices did not occur until October 2022, after the drivers of the application committed to comply with the platform policies.
Although Donald Trump allied with Elon Musk during his campaign for November 2024, the Republican leader continued to use an application that became his main speaker.
Roxana Mumenster, a doctoral student at the University of Cornell and an expert on the extreme right and digital communication, explained a few months ago to the agency Associated Press (AP) that its objective has been to promote against the apps traditional that, according to Republican followers, “They discriminate against their opinions and limit freedom of expression“.
Although his message about freedom and transparency was total, it has only been possible to access application information through a regulatory document in which they assured that TMTG has focused “In developing social truth improving functions and user interface“And not to be based on other performance metrics, for example, the income by average user.
But if during his first stage at the White House, Trump used Twitter as his main speaker until he left it as it came out. The American leader uses his social network as he has never used a similar application. In fact, his alliance with Elon Musk after buying the ‘blue bird’ network and turning it into X, served to recover his account, but he barely uses it to Replicate some of the things he shares in the space he created in 2022.
Despite 107.8 million followers of your official account in X, the Great majority of his tweets are captures of the messages he publishes first in Truth Social. Something similar to what is happening with his account as president of the United States, with 3.4 million followers, which has been transformed into a profile that only RT makes to the publications of the White House.
Worse than one could think
As Trump has decided to give transcendental news for the country he directs and for dozens of countries, especially with tariffs, all media are forced to follow their activity in the social network to learn about the last hours.
In fact, his criticisms of journalists, the media and many large companies in his country and from outside, usually have great relevance. Above all, in which they are related to Wall Street or international bags, which In a matter of seconds they can suffer an important rise or a great fall in the markets.
The Republican leader has been using Truth Social since January as if it were an official agency and for a few days he has taken another step in his interest in attracting followers and people to the platform. In the last week, to see your messages, you need to register in it in a mandatory way. Despite knowing in advance what one could find inside, In just a few minutes, from the configuration, it is difficult not to take your hands to your head.
As soon as you enter the profile of Donald Trump, jump a notice that prevents access to his messages and warns that “once you register in Truth Social, you can see the profiles of the accounts.” So there is nothing left but to register or log in, if you already have a profile.
By taking the step in entering the application of “truth” and “freedom of expression”, it is needed yes or include the phone number. Neither emails nor any other option. The most striking part is that in the box below, you have to accept different terms and conditions: “Yes, I give my consent to receive updates, including promotional and reminding messages, of Truth Social in the number provided. The frequency of the messages can vary. “
Mobile phone registration in Truth Social
Come on, what would be freedom, but not much. But more curious is that once you set up the account, your name, your profile picture and the description of the biography, as occurs in the social network X they offer you a list of users to follow them as soon as the profile is opened. In Elon Musk’s application they ask for tastes and, with them, they give several options, but in Trump’s The list called “News” is composed of 70 profiles that are a declaration of intentions.
Among the main proper names, that of the Republican leader, his son Donald Trump Jr., the American vice president JD Vance, among many other leaders and people close to the US President.
Recommended user as soon as you register in Truth Social.
Maga
Once you have completed all those steps, congratulations, you can soak up a little culture woke and well loaded with republican symbolism. It is true that Its aesthetics is very similar to X, but the content is a different tad.
It is composed of The sections “For You”, “Following” and “Groups”. In “For you”, you can find everything and not precisely something that is viral. You can see messages from users who criticize “freedom and justice for everyone, but not for me.” “Why are pedophiles more protected than me?“, questions in an image.
It is like the drawer of a closet in which you keep everything you do not wear and it accumulates dust and similar relics from another era in history. Some motivating message of Andrew Tate, a reference of the light that and that has open causes for sexual abuse, abuse, minor trafficking and money laundering. What has been a jewel.
In this case, it has not been paid for Truth+, a subscription with which from the social network you can “See the news in which you trust and programs and films that the big media have tried to include in the blacklist“If it is not activated, every few messages will appear advertising. Some of them, related to Donald Trump himself. As one in which a” free “virtual currency is promoted. Totally free today for social truth users! “Pray the advertising space. There are WhatsApp messages from people who get through our children to ask for money that seem less scam than this.
Announcement with Trump’s face in Truth Social
The “Truth Social Groups” has little to envy the WhatsApp group of parents or the family during Christmas. All full of images with text, as if it were Facebook. In one of those groups, “tears on the left”, with 112,000 members, there are montages that do not excite Steven Spielberg. Or the AI is used or paint is used. There is no middle ground.
Roxana Mumenster summarized AP That, despite expressing what some do not want to say, on the platform “There is a lot“.” Its content and audience are mostly conservative and belong to the base of the magician (Make America Great Again, lema de Trump) “he added.
Trends in the social network, what would be the trending topics In X, they seem taken from 1984 From George Orwell. “#Maga”, “#truth”, “#trump”, “#Trump2024”, “#Obama” or “#Biden”, are some of them, but are changing throughout the day.
Trump has played his letters well and will now force all the United States and outside his borders to register in Truth Social to see his messages. But what is clear is that The Republican leader has managed to create On a platform, more similar to a forum, in which hatred and extremism seem almost mandatory requirements to be able to be part of it.
