{"id":4835,"date":"2022-02-22T18:36:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/22\/fake-news-alert-donald-trumps-new-social-media-app-is-a-triumph-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T18:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T17:36:01","slug":"fake-news-alert-donald-trumps-new-social-media-app-is-a-triumph-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/22\/fake-news-alert-donald-trumps-new-social-media-app-is-a-triumph-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake news alert! Donald Trump\u2019s new social media app is a triumph | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former president\u2019s media venture, Truth Social has got off to a rocky start \u2013 with technical problems and potential legal issues to boot<\/p>\n

Truth hurts, everyone knows that. Nevertheless, I wasn\u2019t expecting my experience with Truth Social<\/a>, Donald Trump\u2019s new social media venture, to be quite so painful. After months of fanfare, the former president\u2019s new app, which is essentially a Twitter clone, was opened to the US public on Sunday night. Obviously, I signed up straight away \u2013 or at least I tried to.<\/p>\n

I spent 20 frustrating minutes attempting to create a new account and getting error message after error message. Eventually, I managed to sign up with the username @stormyd, only to be told that I had been put on a waiting list \u201cdue to massive demand\u201d. I was number 194,276 in line, apparently. Which, I\u2019m sure, is a very precise number and not something they just pulled out of the air.<\/p>\n

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\nThe former president\u2019s media venture, Truth Social has got off to a rocky start \u2013 with technical problems and potential legal issues to boot
\nTruth hurts, everyone knows that. Nevertheless, I wasn\u2019t expecting my experience with Truth Social, Donald Trump\u2019s new social media venture, to be quite so painful. After months of fanfare, the former president\u2019s new app, which is essentially a Twitter clone, was opened to the US public on Sunday night. Obviously, I signed up straight away \u2013 or at least I tried to.
\nI spent 20 frustrating minutes attempting to create a new account and getting error message after error message. Eventually, I managed to sign up with the username @stormyd, only to be told that I had been put on a waiting list \u201cdue to massive demand\u201d. I was number 194,276 in line, apparently. Which, I\u2019m sure, is a very precise number and not something they just pulled out of the air. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The former president\u2019s media venture, Truth Social has got off to a rocky start \u2013 with technical problems and potential legal issues to boot Truth hurts, everyone knows that. Nevertheless, I wasn\u2019t expecting my experience with Truth Social, Donald Trump\u2019s new social media venture, to be quite so painful. After months of fanfare, the former …<\/p>\n

Fake news alert! Donald Trump\u2019s new social media app is a triumph | Arwa Mahdawi<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}