Trump’s social network has a new partner, and that’s precisely what you’d expect.
TRUTH Social partners with an online video provider known for hosting content that may not exceed YouTube’s moderation policy. It’s called Rumble, and it’s a favorite of a diversity of fringe characters, adding QAnon supporters, far-right extremists, and anti-vaxxers. .
It also hosts videos of several trump global personalities, Donald Trump Jr.
Like right-wing tech companies, Rumble presents itself as a bastion opposed to “the cancellation of culture. “
In practice, it hosts a wide diversity of content. The company will pay former rep Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) to “challenge the prestige quo,” for example.
The companies said this week that Trump Media & Technology Group — which controls TRUTH Social — will receive cloud computing services from Rumble, and that Rumble will provide video and streaming for TRUTH, along with an unspecified, planned “Subscription Video On-Demand Product” called TMTG+.
Trump may not be president anymore, but there are still endless opportunities for content.
The financing deal that spawned TRUTH Social has come under SEC scrutiny in recent months, as regulators investigate whether Trump spoke about his company receiving funding from a blank check acquisition company before that firm went public — a potential violation of financial regulations.
TRUTH Social encountered trouble upon its initial October 2021 announcement to the public. The company used code that was developed by an open-source social network called Mastodon, without complying with the terms of that company’s license.
TRUTH Social appears to have fixed the license issue after receiving a letter from Mastodon’s attorneys.
A beta version of the network was initially planned to be up and available by November.
It’s unclear whether the company met that deadline, but Trump said in pronouncing the Rumble deal that the site is now running on the “Visitors-Only Rumble Cloud. “
Who exactly crossed the velvet rope and entered the TRUTH remains uncertain. Trump called the beta release “excellent. “
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