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> Miller told Fox News earlier this week he hoped Trump would join but that the former president was considering a number of options. He said Trump was not fund
by 29083011397778 5y ago
> Miller told Fox News earlier this week he hoped Trump would join but that the former president was considering a number of options. He said Trump was not funding the platform.
Is my reading correct here? Trump, after bringing the ban-wave and replace twitter rhetoric to the foreground, isn't even on the platform?
- sidibe 5y agoIf any of these conservative social media apps succeeds it'll be the one Trump jumps on. Given his nature, he is going to make sure to get very well compensated for picking the winner.
- ceejayoz 5y agoIt’s a chicken and an egg problem. His numbers will always be lower than they were on Twitter, and that will always be pointed out. Same reason his blog lasted about a month.
- rsynnott 5y agoI mean, if I was Trump's publicity advisor (bloody hell, what a horrible job), I'd be advising him not to go near it with a ten foot pole, certainly not without seeing how it evolves. The history of these sort of "mainstream social media site is oppressing me, making my own" things is... not inspiring; they tend to fill with rejects that even Trump wouldn't want to be associated with (in particular, see voat).
- tzs 5y agoOr see Gab. Andrew Torba, their CEO, has claimed that Kushner had told Gab that as a prerequisite to Trump joining Gab had to remove anti-Semitic hate speech. Gab refused. Trump later joined Rumble, which Torba claims changed their TOS that day to ban "hate speech" with an explicit ban on anti-semitic messages (which Torba says is also known as "any and all criticism of Israel and/or Jewish people").