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Donald Trump is reportedly returning to social media.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Former \u00a0said 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Plans to launch a new social network underscore how Trump is trying to rejoin the online public<\/a> conversation after ,\u00a0\u00a0and Google-owned YouTube booted him from their platforms following the deadly US Capitol Hill riot in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A mockup of Truth social looks like Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Screenshot by Queenie Wong\/CNET<\/p>\n<\/p>\n , 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.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 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.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The former president\u00a0\u00a0alongside Twitter, alleging censorship and First Amendment violations, even though the\u00a0\u00a0like social media sites. Trump has for some time\u00a0\u00a0that the companies discriminate against the right, a charge the firms have repeatedly denied.<\/p>\n Launching a new social network<\/p>\n Trump has been talking about creating his own social network since he got barred from Twitter, Facebook and Google.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n