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On Trump's new social network, TRUTH Social, you can post TRUTHs, which are like tweets, or Re-TRUTHs, which are retweets. There's also a TRUTH Feed and notifications so you can know who’s interacting with your TRUTH’s
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The Trump Media & Technology Group's pitch deck definitely includes all of the relevant historical events concerning political segmentation between October 1996 and Jan. 8, 2021
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Anyone can create an account on Trump's social network TRUTH Social using a publicly available link. I literally just registered "mikepence." The site hasn't even launched yet and it's already this vulnerable
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Trump Jr. said on Fox News tonight that TRUTH Social is in "beta testing" for the next few weeks, with a full launch Q1 2022. I'm assuming "allow anyone to sign up as mikepence" is not a beta feature
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Fox already promoting Trump’s new blog
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Ok, not quite a hack. Pranksters found an unreleased test version of what appeared to be Trump's social network site, made a fake account in Trump's name, and then used it to post the meme image "Pig Poop Balls." Just bringing you the important news, folks
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New: Our full story on the early mess inside Trump's social network, TRUTH Social, which pranksters already defaced. The site bans criticism of itself, clings to Section 230 and adopts many other measures Trump has criticized Big Tech for:
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Other TRUTH Social weird stuff: * Its App Store listing has lots of official logos & fake posts from companies like Chevy, which tells me they have "no affiliation" with the site * It can ban you for posting too many capital letters. Damn cancel culture wapo.st/3aYRfkU
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More news: The founder of Mastodon, the open-source software Trump's site is built on, says it may be in violation of rules. He's contacted legal counsel. They couldn't take the site down, but "avenues to take action still exist through legal proceedings"
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But wait, there's more. Trump's social network shut down the other test site, but smart people on the Internet ran a search of its favicon and found another test domain, which I was just able to create a fake account for. This security is ... not great! wapo.st/3aYRfkU
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They loaded up hundreds of old Trump posts (sorry, Truths) and have been Favoriting and ReTruthing them. Love to leave my test software out in the open for several months
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Here are some accounts of people who appear to be working on the unreleased TRUTH Social site. Also, a fake ESPN profile? I promise you, it is possible to build a website without exposing all of this on the public Internet
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Someone on the team building Trump's social network also appears to have made a "Fake Hunter Biden" account: "Home videographer. 3 baby mamas. Crackhead." Classy.
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Update: The second (totally unsecured) test site for Trump's social network, which showed how his team had created fake accounts for Trump and Hunter Biden, has been taken offline. It looked like this:
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