Refinitiv Newscasts - Truth Social has potential to fuel U.S. extremism - analyst

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23/02/2022 03:33

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Source: Reuters

Description: As former President Donald Trump's new social media venture,
Truth Social, surpasses 170,000 downloads, observers are watching to see how
this new platform gets used as Trump returns to the digital sphere after being
banned from other platforms last year.
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Video Transcript:

I think it could be influential as it relates to the next presidential
campaign. I think it could be a useful tool for mobilizing support, for
gathering data that could inform the campaign. I think there's potential there
for it to have an impact. And I think, you know, more socially, culturally,
politically, there's the potential for it to contribute and exacerbate some of
the problems we're seeing right now in our country as it relates to political
polarization and extremism. If we look at the other sort of conservative
focused social media platforms that have developed, whether it's Parler, Gab,
you know, their ceiling seems to be fairly limited as far as the size of their
user base. But I think the real question here is, to what extent is this even
a commercial enterprise?