Truth Social

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter on Wednesday writing that its competitor Truth Social, which he says has a “terrible name,” only exists because of ...

Change % Change Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter on Wednesday writing that its competitor Truth Social, which he says has a "terrible name," only exists because of Twitter’s censorship of free speech.

Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter has created an unexpected race to the right with the former president.

In that light, it’s not surprising that Twitter might try to change its public perception to appeal to the same group of users. It’s Musk agreeing with the complaints about Twitter — so much so that he decided to buy the company and affect those changes. By migrating to Rumble’s hosting platform, though, the company will be able to “scale significantly,” it said in a news release — adding “on a new and cancel-culture-free cloud platform.” (By “cloud platform,” the company meant a separate company that operates the servers on which Truth Social’s content will live.) Musk replied that the situation “[s]ounds pretty bad,” which, as presented, it does — since it’s meant to sound bad and is not demonstrably true. Gadde is Twitter’s top attorney and was on the podcast in 2019 to discuss the site’s moderation policies, for which she is responsible. The meme also focused a great deal of hostility on Gadde, as The Post has reported. This is the same reason that Trump himself was suspended from Twitter: not because of his opinions but out of concern that he might again foment violence in Washington. Some users erroneously thought this was somehow Musk at the controls or, slightly more feasibly, Twitter tweaking its algorithms to be more conservative-friendly. He wasn’t complimentary, really, suggesting that “Truth Social” was a bad name and “Trumpet” a better one, which isn’t necessarily wrong. The result, at least for now, is that the social media giant appears to be trying to compete with Trump’s tiny start-up for the same pool of attention. The Newsmax host pointed to the social media platform Parler being booted from its cloud-service providers, something that Nunes agreed wouldn’t happen to Truth Social. And the news about Musk’s acquisition of Twitter gave him even more reason to be booked as a guest.

“Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censored free speech,” Mr Musk tweeted. “Should be called Trumpet instead!” Mr Musk brought up Mr Trump's ...

“We’re taking in millions of people, and what we’re finding is that the response on TRUTH is much better than being on Twitter,” Mr Trump said. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH. I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH,” he said.

Shares of Digital World Acquisition jumped 24% Wednesday as downloads of Trump's social network spiked almost tenfold.

Details surrounding the former president’s media venture have been scarce and the rollout of Truth Social was plagued by snags and delays. Wednesday’s rally started in premarket hours, following a tweet by Elon Musk, who is purchasing competitor Twitter Inc., in which he said that Truth Social passed both Twitter and TikTok on the Apple App Store overnight. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. leaped 24% Wednesday as thousands more users gained access to Truth Social’s full functionality and downloads jumped almost tenfold.