公開日:2021/10/23 / 最終更新日:2021/10/23

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Donald Trump is reportedly returning to social media.

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Former  said on Wednesday he’s launching a new social network called Truth Social, whose goal is to push back against , according to a press release purported to come from one of his companies. The Trump Media and Technology Group, which made the announcement, said the social network will begin a limited beta launch in November, with a wider rollout expected in the first quarter of 2022. 

“I created Truth Social and TMGT to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech,” Trump said in the press release sent to the media. “We live in a world where the Taliban has a presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American president has been silenced.”

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There’s a site for Truth Social where people can join a waiting list for the social network, as well as a link to preorder the iOS app. Screenshots of the app suggest Truth will have profile pages with a Twitter-like timeline of posts. 

Plans to launch a new social network underscore how Trump is trying to rejoin the online public conversation after ,  and Google-owned YouTube booted him from their platforms following the deadly US Capitol Hill riot in January. 

A mockup of Truth social looks like Twitter.

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, letting him to try to take hold of the political narrative. But on Jan. 8, two days after a mob of his supporters in a riot that , including a Capitol Police officer. Twitter said the ban was “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”

said Trump would be suspended from its platform until at least 2023. The social network would then “look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded.” Facebook made the decision after a board tasked with reviewing its toughest content moderation decisions upheld Trump’s suspension from the platform. has said it would lift Trump’s suspension from its platform when the “risk of violence has decreased.”

The former president  alongside Twitter, alleging censorship and First Amendment violations, even though the  like social media sites. Trump has for some time  that the companies discriminate against the right, a charge the firms have repeatedly denied.

Launching a new social network

Trump has been talking about creating his own social network since he got barred from Twitter, Facebook and Google. 

In March, casino (www.vegas126.com) Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Trump, told Fox News the  in “two or three months.” Trump started  in May, but he . 

Despite the creation of a new social media platform, Trump hasn’t forsaken Twitter. Earlier this month, the former president asked a US district judge to grant a preliminary injunction that would while his lawsuit against Twitter wends its way through the courts.

TMTG has agreed to merge with Digital World Acquisition Group, a Miami-based company listed on the Nasdaq, to form a new company chaired by Trump, according to the press release.

Digital World Acquisition Group is a special purpose acquisition company, or “blank check company,” according to a . SPACs are shell corporations with no commercial operations listed on a public stock exchange with the purpose of acquiring or merging with a private company, thus making it public as well.  

Neither Digital World Acquisition Group nor a representative for Trump immediately responded to requests for comment.

Trump’s effort to build his own social network is already facing some challenges. reported that an image of a defecating pig to the “donaldjtrump” account of what appeared to be an unreleased test version of the site has been pulled down.