Donald Trump’s various social media platform, Truth Social, has nonetheless not been accredited by Google to look in its Play retailer for Android customers to obtain, Google confirmed to HuffPost on Tuesday.
Google mentioned in a press release that the issue with the previous president’s app lies in its incapacity to correctly average violent content material posted by customers. It additionally mentioned that it notified Trump Media & Technology Group of the problem in mid-August, regardless of CEO Devin Nunes saying final week, “I don’t know what’s taking so long.”
Trump launched the Twitter lookalike in May after being kicked off the precise Twitter platform within the aftermath of the lethal Capitol assault in January 2021. Instead of “tweeting,” customers publish “truths,” and as a substitute of “retweeting,” they “re-truth.”
Users look like “truthing” and “re-truthing” bodily threats and requires violence in opposition to Google’s coverage.
A Truth Social app is accessible for iPhone customers, however others have needed to depend on their internet browser to entry the location. Google announced final yr that it had surpassed 3 billion lively Android customers, which means that not having Truth Social obtainable on the Play retailer may have a big detrimental influence on the corporate’s backside line. There are, nevertheless, different methods by which Trump may make the app obtainable to Android customers, similar to by having them obtain it off the Truth Social web site.
“On Aug. 19,” a Google spokesperson mentioned, “we notified Truth Social of several violations of standard policies in their current app submission and reiterated that having effective systems for moderating user-generated content is a condition of our terms of service for any app to go live on Google Play.” Axios was first to report on the corporate’s assertion.
The spokesperson continued: “Last week Truth Social wrote back acknowledging our feedback and saying that they are working on addressing these issues.”
So far, the app is simply obtainable to preorder on Google Play retailer.
Nunes informed the right-wing community Real America’s Voice that though Truth Social was created to avoid Big Tech, it’s nonetheless considerably beholden to tech giants Apple and Google, as a result of they management which apps can be found from their respective app shops.
But availability isn’t the one drawback going through Trump’s platform.
Citing paperwork filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, The Washington Post reported over the weekend that Truth Social’s marketing strategy is on skinny ice, with no assured income stream and mediocre visitors. The website’s monetary woes may worsen additional if Trump “becomes less popular or there are further controversies that damage his credibility,” one submitting states.
The former president is at present going through authorized threats on a number of fronts, most notably in latest weeks for improperly storing top-secret authorities paperwork in a basement room at his Mar-a-Lago golf membership ― probably in violation of federal legislation.
On Tuesday morning, he went on a rampage by way of Truth Social, “re-truthing” round 60 posts, in response to a depend by Rolling Stone. Most attacked President Joe Biden, and one went as far as to say ― but once more ― that Trump had really received the 2020 election and needs to be reinstated to the Oval Office.
HuffPost’s requests for remark from Truth Social was not instantly returned.
