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Truth Social Is Selling Instant Access to Trump’s Posts to Banks and Traders (truthout.org)
submitted 3 months ago by [B] to c/pravda_news@news.abolish.capital
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President Donald Trump’s media company is launching a new product that will allow banks and financial traders to access Truth Social’s data at the “fastest” speed for a fee, giving them exclusive real-time access to posts that may affect the markets, as Trump’s posts frequently do. The product is known as “Truth API,” and Trump Media & Technology Group, which runs Truth Social plans to…

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[–] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So...just paying for insider information, right out in the open. And this is fine. Nothing corrupt about this, at all.

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    • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    So...they'll be manipulated first?

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    [–] 57 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    When I hear about this it just confirms exactly how struggling American families and their children are never going to have the American dream. All of that wealth is going to these guys.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Turns out that voters doing absolutely nothing to stop a self serving grifter rapist insurrectionist with a stated intention to do, and past record of doing just that, kinda does that.

    But try telling the sitouts that.

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    • [–] 34 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    I don't understand. It takes a fraction of a second to publish a post. Are they adding a delay to his posts, and then charging a fee to get them instantly? This article has like 2 dozen paragraphs and yet never explains.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago

    Publishing the post sure.

    But propagating notification alerts to followers isn’t reliably that fast.

    Having a paid queue to be alerted first makes sense technically.

    Huge ethical issues though. This is clearly just corruption. Pay me money and you’ll get insider trading information that won’t actually be called that.

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    • [–] 30 points 3 months ago

    This admin certainly has been innovating. It's like a corruption onion.

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    [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    Kurt Vonnegut couldn't write something this overtly and stupidly corrupt

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    [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    MORE CORRUPTION.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Grifters gonna grift

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    The level of cartoonish evil is nuts with this people

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