{"id":56201,"date":"2023-01-29T11:07:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T19:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56201"},"modified":"2023-01-29T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T19:07:16","slug":"truth-social-disease-ads-on-trumps-twitter-ripoff-are-mostly-scams-and-trump-fluffing-merch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56201","title":{"rendered":"Truth Social Disease: Ads on Trump’s Twitter Ripoff are Mostly Scams and Trump-Fluffing Merch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two years ago Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites, suspended Donald Trump’s accounts. They correctly assessed that his relentless lies about election fraud were likely to incite more violence, and that his dangerous disinformation about COVID would result in more needless fatalities. As a result, Trump launched his own platform to seek the attention that his ego so desperately craved.<\/p>\n

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Consistent with his prior business and political misadventures, Trump’s Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, has been a spectacular failure from its inception. Its buggy launch was plagued with crashes and frustrated users who couldn’t log in. Fake accounts and imposters overran the joint. It is the subject of criminal probes by the Securities and Exchange Commission and a Grand Jury in New York<\/a><\/strong>. And the shell company it partnered with to go public, Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC), suffered an 85% decline in stock value over the past ten months.<\/p>\n

So now that Facebook and Twitter have caved in and are restoring Trump’s accounts – which is profoundly ignorant, dangerous, and hypocritical<\/a><\/strong> – it’s not surprising that he is itching to resume tweeting.<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: Trump is Said to Be Plotting His Return to Twitter, Affirming that Truth Social is a Flop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

However, all is not well in Trumpville. The New York Times has done an exhaustive analysis<\/a><\/strong> of the advertising that appears on Truth Social that makes it look more like it’s contracted a Truth Social disease. Major advertisers are avoiding it like the plague.<\/p>\n

Similar to what is happening on Twitter due to Elon Musk’s gross mismanagement, advertisers are afraid of their ads being juxtaposed with hate speech and other noxious content. Consequently, the only advertisers who are willing to shell out are sketchy scammers, conspiracy theorists, and junk peddlers. According to the Times, the site is rampant with…<\/p>\n

“…many pitches from hucksters and fringe marketers […and…] Ads from major brands are nonexistent on the site. Instead, the ads on Truth Social are for alternative medicine, diet pills, gun accessories and Trump-themed trinkets, according to an analysis of hundreds of ads on the social network by The New York Times.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Times provided a collection of some of the bogus ads that appeared on the site. One particularly loopy example showed “Trump holding a $1,000 bill made of gold, which he was apparently offering free to supporters.”<\/em> […however…] “The bill was not free, it was not made of gold, and it was not offered by Mr. Trump.”<\/em> Another example featured a fake tweet of President Biden threatening to ban a $2.00 bill with Trump’s face on it.<\/p>\n

That’s the sort of garbage you’re left with when a site is abandoned by reputable advertisers. The mass exodus was noted last year in a tweet by by GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-QAnon) who was appalled at what she bizarrely called “corporate communism.”<\/em><\/p>\n

SEE THIS: UH-OH: Marjorie Taylor Greene Fears \u2018Corporate Communism\u2019 of Advertisers Leaving Musk\u2019s Twitter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Some additional points made in the Times article include that…<\/p>\n