Google Okays Trump's Truth Social Listing At Play Store

Alphabet Inc’s Google has approved former US president Donald Trump’s social media app Truth Social for distribution in the Google Play Store, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday (Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, in Manila), Helen Coster reported for Reuters.

Photo Insert: Google had expressed concerns to Truth Social about violations of its Play Store policies prohibiting content like physical threats and incitement to violence.

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which operates Truth Social, is expected to make the app available in the Play Store soon, Google said.

Truth Social, which launched in the United States in the Apple App Store in February, had not previously been available in the Play Store due to insufficient content moderation, according to a Google spokesperson in August, Axios also reported.

Google had expressed concerns to Truth Social about violations of its Play Store policies prohibiting content like physical threats and incitement to violence. Without the Google and Apple stores, there is no easy way for most smartphone users to download Truth Social.

Google’s Play Store is the main way users of Android phones in the United States download apps, the Associated Press (AP) and CNN also reported.

Truth Social restored Trump’s presence on social media more than a year after he was banned from Twitter Inc, Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s YouTube following the January 6, 2021 US Capitol riots, after he was accused of posting messages inciting violence.

TMTG has pledged to deliver an “engaging and censorship-free experience” on Truth Social, appealing to a base that feels its views around such hot-button topics as the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The sad news is that investors in a SPAC merging with Truth Social have withdrawn their money, and many are following suit.

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