The launch of the former US president’s social network Donald Trump It is scheduled for February 21 with its presence in Apple’s application store, the App Store.
The Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the parent company of Truth Social, the name of the social network, did not respond to a confirmation request from AFP.
The future platform has been presented by the former president as an alternative to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, from which he has been excluded for having incited his supporters to violence before the assault on the Capitol, on January 6, 2021.
TMTG teamed up with the publicly traded Digital World Acquisition Corp to raise $ 293 million in September on Wall Street. The two groups announced in early December that they had secured another commitment of about $ 1 billion.
In total, if the transaction costs are deducted, TMTG has about $ 1.25 billion to launch itself into the conquest of its competitors in the already highly saturated market of social networks highly valued by ultraconservatives.
Gettr, launched in early July by the former councilor of Donald Trump, Jason Miller, as well as Parler and Gab have positioned themselves before the supporters of the former president as guarantors of freedom of expression, escaping the censorship of the social networks of the general public.
Gettr just scored a point thanks to a tweet from animator and comedian Joe Rogan, whose podcast is the most popular in the world, asking his subscribers to join the platform.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx