Nearly 10 months after he was suspended from several social media platforms, Donald Trump, the former United States President, announced on Wednesday that he will be launching his own media company and social media network.
In a statement released by spokeswoman Liz Harrington, Trump said that he has created the social media network and the media company to “stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech” and stated that the mission of the soon to be publicly listed Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) is to “give a voice to all.”
“We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favourite American President has been silenced. This is unacceptable,” said the statement.
The public listing of Trump’s new media company TMTG will happen as a result of its merger with Digital World Acquisition Group (DWAC), the statement noted.
The new company also announced that its social media app ‘TRUTH Social’ is now “available for Pre-order in the Apple App store.”
According to the statement, the TRUTH Social app plans to begin its beta launch for “invited guests” in November and is expected to have a nationwide rollout in the first quarter of 2022.
Trump was suspended from various social media platforms following the violence that broke out in Capitol Hill on January 6, where one person was fatally shot and three more succumbed to their injuries. This came at a time when his tweets and speeches made false claims and the former president tried to spread misinformation regarding the elections that he had just lost.
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Trump was initially locked out of his Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook accounts for 24 hours and Twitter account for 12 hours.
Later, in a first of its kind move by several tech giants, Trump was indefinitely banned from Instagram and YouTube, suspended from Facebook for two years, and permanently banned from Twitter.
In July, Trump filed class-action lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube over his suspension on the platforms seeking an immediate injunction to allow the prompt restoration of his social media accounts while asking the court to impose “punitive damages” on the three tech giants.