Donald Trump · New York · Ars Technica
Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month
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President Trump was sued by nonprofit news groups today over Truth Social’s “Truth API” that sells real-time access to posts from Trump and other top users of the social network.
Key facts
- Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of Truth Social, reported $1.7 million in revenue and a net loss of $238.1 million in the second quarter
- The lawsuit was filed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Besides Trump, defendants include Executive Assistant to the President Natalie Harp and Deputy Chief of Staff Daniel Scavino
- The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation are both nonprofits and said they will be harmed by the Truth Social scheme
Summary
Trump’s social media company this month started charging customers up to $100,000 per month for the earliest access to posts that can have immediate impacts on financial markets. Truth Social also intends to impose restrictions on web scraping tools and make its API the only way to access archived posts that have been deleted or edited, the lawsuit said. “A president selling priority access to news he himself generates for the benefit of a private company he controls is so blatantly corrupt and unconstitutional that it would have been hard to even fathom a few years ago,” said Seth Stern, the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s chief of advocacy. The lawsuit was filed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York.