‘Like a Trump rally’: Inside the former US president’s Truth Social app

Trump's new social media app Truth Social, glitching on a smartphone in Los Angeles, Feb 21, 2022. For the users who make it past the waitlist to join and then the ubiquitous tech glitches on the freshly launched app, a first scan reveals that the platform calling itself a ‘big tent’ of ideas has a tight focus on Trump’s favourite fixations. — AFP

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden in Taliban fighter garb or stumbling over his words or bungling efforts to avert war in Ukraine – posts on Donald Trump’s new social media network “Truth Social” have a go-to target.

For the users who make it past the waitlist to join and then the ubiquitous tech glitches on the freshly launched app, a first scan reveals that the platform calling itself a “big tent” of ideas has a tight focus on Trump’s favourite fixations.