Trump's Losing 'Truth Social' Outlet Bans Posts About Jan. 6 Hearings

The irony is rich: Truth Social, Donald Trump's Twitter clone that claims to be "free of political discrimination," has reportedly barred users from posting information from Thursday's congressional hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol — in which the former president is a key focus, Todd Spangler reported for Variety.

Photo Insert: Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which owns and operates Truth Social, has been losing money due to a lack of clients

This is according to several tweets from users who claimed Truth Social was censoring them. Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which owns and operates Truth Social and has been losing money due to a lack of clients, did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump currently has 3.2 million Truth Social followers. He had over 88 million followers on Twitter before being banned. As of March 31, 2022, TMTG had not generated any revenue and has warned investors that "TMTG may never generate any operating revenues or ever achieve profitable operations."

According to a regulatory filing by Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that intends to merge with TMTG, TMTG had approximately 40 full-time employees as of the end of March.

Travis Allen, an information security analyst according to his Twitter bio, posted a screenshot from the Truth Social app on Thursday evening that said "Account suspended," and he wrote, "My Truth Social account was just permanently suspended for talking about the January 6th Committee hearings."

He added, "So much for 'free speech.' This is censorship!"

“Seeing a lot of folks getting banned from Trump’s Truth Social for posting updates about the January 6 Committee hearings,” Max Burns, communications director for Democratic New York State Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, tweeted Friday.

“Apparently free speech has its limits even in Trumpland.” Also Friday morning, another Twitter user reported, “Just put out my first post on Truth social and they deleted it. Real freedom of speech champs there.”

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