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Photo: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of FloridaThe first thing you notice is the hideous carpet. You could probably spill a whole pot of coffee on it and no one would notice. Next you’re wondering what that weird handle on the wall is for. It almost looks like a film still. Like Clint Eastwood might be standing there, looking down at some ransacked office, about to say something incredibly obvious. “They must’ve been looking for something.”On the floor, there’s six piles of paperclip-bound documents. One…

Google notifies Truth Social of several violations of standard policies, pointing out it lacked the required moderation of user-generated content as users have been found inciting violence. Truth Social restored Trump's presence on social media more than a year after he was banned from Twitter Inc, Facebook and…

Donald Trump's social media app "Truth Social" in Apple's App Store on an iPhone 12.Christoph Dernbach | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesTruth Social, the would-be Twitter competitor created by Trump Media and Technology Group, remains unavailable on the Google Play store.Google said the app lacks effective systems for moderating user-generated content, which violates the store's terms of service."On Aug. 19, we notified Truth Social of several violations of standard policies in their current app submission and reiterated…

Photo: No-Mad (Shutterstock)Truth Social, the Twitter-like social platform for the ultra-right and Trump sycophants, has a QAnon problem (yes, I heard your collective gasp). More than that, conspiracist accounts have become a celebrated and regular part of the greater Truth Social community, thanks to major Republican officials and the titular former president himself “retruthing” the conspiracist nonsense (alright, you can stop gasping—the collective shock has truly run dry).Researchers with media watchdog group…

Former US president Donald Trump set up an alternative social network called Truth Social earlier this year. But his supporters don't seem to have followed him there, and Truth Social is facing financial woes as it tries to stay afloat. Donald Trump had announced the arrival of his social platform Truth Social with much…

Former US President Donald Trump's social media platform, Truth Social, will join the video-sharing company Rumble's new ad platform as its first publisher, the companies said on Tuesday. The announcement reflects a deepening relationship between Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), Truth Social's parent company, and Rumble, a Canadian video-sharing platform that caters to conservatives. Rumble had already been working with TMTG for months in a role that was described internally as a key strategic partnership but…

Donald Trump-owned social media site, Truth Social, has seen a big influx of interest and new users following last week’s widely-publicized FBI raid on the former president’s Florida home.Between July 31 and Aug 7, 2022 the app was downloaded fewer than 20,000 times. Yet last week, that number jumped up to more than 100,000 downloads, according to stats provided to Gizmodo by data.ai, a market analytics company, and first reported on by Vice.The platform has faced numerous technical issues from the very start, including…

Alec Baldwin has said that after former US President Donald Trump’s Rust shooting comments, he was “100 per cent nervous” about being attacked by Trump supporters. The 64-year-old actor fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza on the set of Rust on October 21, after assistant director David Halls allegedly handed him a prop gun which turned out to be loaded.A few weeks after the incident, Trump baselessly suggested Baldwin may have deliberately shot his two colleagues. On a recent CNN…

Contributions totaling $5 million to Donald Trump’s charity in 2007 and 2009 were among $19.6 million in unrecorded company expenses Vince McMahon paid out before he stepped down from World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. amid misconduct allegations, an internal board investigation found.In securities filings this month, WWE said that the roughly $20 million that came out of Mr. McMahon’s pocket should…

Vince McMahon (L) and Donald Trump attend a press conference about the WWE at the Austin Straubel International Airport on June 22, 2009 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.Mark A. Wallenfang | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesFormer World Wrestling Entertainment boss Vince McMahon paid $5 million of around $20 million previously unrecorded expenses to Donald Trump's foundation in 2007 and 2009, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.The report comes weeks after McMahon retired as CEO of the company amid…