{"id":7926,"date":"2021-10-24T17:21:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T17:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7926"},"modified":"2021-10-24T17:21:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T17:21:47","slug":"donald-trump-to-launch-social-media-platform-called-truth-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7926","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump to launch social media platform called Truth Social"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/oct\/20\/donald-trump-truth-social-app-apple\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f49f78e0711c7f2c334e844bd970fa5105d0f31e\/0_0_1645_560\/master\/1645.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=39f73eed990cf65ecfbaed73d2471821\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The former president, who remains banned from Facebook and Twitter, has a goal to rival those tech giants<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Guardian and other sources are covering the news that&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/oct\/20\/donald-trump-truth-social-app-apple\">Donald Trump to launch social media platform called Truth Social<\/a>. It is typical that he calls the platform the very thing he is accused of not providing &#8230; &#8220;truth&#8221;. Trump has no shame and routinely turns whatever is believed about him, from fake news to being a loser, into an accusation against others. The king of fake news called any story he didn&#8217;t like fake news and when he lost the 2020 election he turned that upside down making belief that the election was stolen (and he therefore is not a loser) into a touchstone of Republican belief. How does this end? Do sane Republicans just stop mentioning him at some point? He can&#8217;t be disproved or disagreed with; all that can happen is that he gets cancelled. And that is why he wants us to Follow the Truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former president, who remains banned from Facebook and Twitter, has a goal to rival those tech giants The Guardian and other sources are covering the news that&nbsp; Donald Trump to launch social media platform called Truth Social. It is typical that he calls the platform the very thing he is accused of not providing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donald Trump to launch social media platform called Truth Social<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7928,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions\/7928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}