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Donald Trump has launched a new "communications" website, which says it
will publish content "straight from the desk" of the former US president.
Mr Trump was banned by Twitter and suspended by Facebook and YouTube after
the Capitol riots in January.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56989500
The former president has since been releasing statements by press release
- which the new website will now host.
Users will be able to like posts - and also share them on Twitter and
Facebook accounts.
"It is a blog," Kara Swisher, technology columnist for the New York Times
told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "I was like '2002 is calling and it
wants its blog back...'
"I don't know what the overall plan is because he does have some very
sharp digital advisers. It is just the beginning of his attempts to try to re-establish a louder ability to participate in digital media."
Mr Trump's senior adviser, Jason Miller, had previously said a new social
media platform was to be launched. "This new platform is going to be big,"
he said in March.
But Mr Miller tweeted on Tuesday that the new website was not the social
media platform he had previously hyped.
"We'll have additional information coming on that front in the very near future," he said.
The website is reportedly built by Campaign Nucleus, a digital services
company created by Mr Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale.
Several posts on the site repeat debunked claims that last year's
presidential election was rigged.
The new site arrived just before a decision from Facebook's Oversight
Board on whether Facebook was right to ban Mr Trump.
The panel upheld the ban - but said Facebook must review whether it should
be permanent, and apply consistent rules to all users. That could leave
the door open to Mr Trump's return to Facebook and Instagram in the future.
The former president used his new site to label Facebook - along with
Twitter and Google - "a total disgrace".
"Free speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the radical left lunatics are afraid of the truth," he said.
"The people of our country will not stand for it! These corrupt social
media companies must pay a political price, and must never again be
allowed to destroy and decimate our electoral process."
YouTube has said they will reactivate Mr Trump's account when the threat
of "real-world violence" reduces.
Twitter, where Mr Trump had 88 million followers, has banned him
permanently.
A Twitter spokesperson told the BBC: "Generally, sharing content from the website referenced is permitted as long as the material does not otherwise violate the Twitter Rules".
### - haha his BIG new media site hyped to rival all the others is just a
me me me me me blog??? :D
had expected - with all 'his' billions! - summat more than just a 2-bit personal blog site??
no one else can post anything to it! so at best he can maybe give twitter
& facebook a bit of a headache deleting his stuff if/when people attempt
to 'repost' his remarks to them seeing as they previously blocked all his reposted comments when he (and others) tried to sneak them on there using
other accounts, but that's about it? you can login there, and maybe
donate, but that's all!?
smile, something homeland security might be interested in though, in the
sense that everyone who opens an account on there is effectively creating
a neat list of potential nutjob subversives of one kind or another for
them to keep their eye on lol, how convenient! :)))
(am guessing he didn't fancy a whole bunch of militia-type remarks
appearing on there involving his name that could potentially come back to
haunt him, and/or 1000's of jeremy-style anti-trump haranguing comments
either haha)
how very disappointing! :))))
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