Trump, who will never be lonely, announced that he was going to build a new social media platform called TRUTH Social. The beta version will be available to invited users in November and will be officially launched early next year. In fact, this is not the first time trump has announced that he will have his own platform, and with the scale of his business, it is not a big deal to build an app. It's just that Trump has done it around, and he hasn't made any name for himself, and I don't know if he can do it this time.
Trump's long-term appeal: return my account
Trump declared that his move was aimed at countering the tyranny of the Internet tech giants: "We live in a cyber world where the Taliban are showing their faces on Twitter while The president, America's favorite, is silenced." Trump is recognized as a narcissistic personality disorder, and it's normal for him to claim that Americans love the most. To be fair, there are indeed some Americans who see him as his favorite, the people who rushed up Capitol Hill.
The internet / mobile network / social media, and the political entertainment I have talked about for many years, is gaining weight in the US election campaign / government operations. Since Obama's victory in 2008, these elements have played a decisive role. Trump's victory in 2016 played a key role. Social media is also his favorite way to publish information during his presidency. From February 2017 to February 2021, during Trump's presidency, he sent out more than 36,000 Tweet posts and had 90 million followers. He works through Twitter, including major personnel appointments and removals.
Shock Congress and shock the world
On January 6, 2021, Trump's supporters stormed the US Congress, and social giants such as Twitter and Facebook banned a series of accounts, including Trump. In a short period of time, including Trump himself, a large number of people turned to Parler, a small platform that supports Trump in terms of political leanings, and the originally unknown social media APP has exploded in users. Tech giants Google, Apple and Amazon subsequently removed Parler. As a server provider, Amazon unpacked Parler's network cable.
It should be emphasized that the above-mentioned blocking, whether it is a suspension or a network cable, is an enterprise act, has not undergone any administrative or judicial review, and the party being dealt with does not even have a basic right to appeal. Trump has called this the "tyranny of tech giants," accusing them of suppressing opponents in the United States.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explained the reason for permanently blocking Trump's account: After the severe violence that hit Capitol Hill, the suspension was the only right decision. He acknowledged that the move set a dangerous precedent: individuals or businesses, with the public voice of a country or even the world, powerful enough to silence the president of the United States.
Since the beginning of Trump's 2016 campaign, social media platforms have been under intense pressure to ban his speeches. Trump's posts have been criticized for being insulting, inflammatory or spreading misinformation. Discriminatory language, overtly disinformation, trafficking in anxiety and hatred, can be found everywhere in Trump's posts. Incredibly, U.S. government administration and law enforcement, without the pressure to do so, is a country known as the rule of law/rule of law. In other words, Trump's remarks suspected of violating criminal law have become a contradiction between him and social media platforms.
Trump lost the 2020 U.S. presidential election, but his involvement in U.S. realpolitik was very active, which is completely different from the living George W. Bush, Carter, Obama, and Clinton. The idea that Trump will re-enter the next election never seems to have been dispelled. Although he did not make an official announcement, he announced N times because of his public hints, trump will run for the 2024 presidential election. The above is the background of Trump's grip on social media platforms.
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Running for election again, social platforms are important to Trump