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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Bunker USA: You can’t handle the Truth Social – Inside Trump’s alt Twitter

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

After being banned from Twitter, Donald Trump set up Truth Social, his own social media platform. What can you expect to find on the site? Is it just a mouthpiece for the former President? Kayla Gogarty, associate research director at Media Matters America, joins Jacob Jarvis to discuss Trump’s online echo chamber. “Truth Social is a way for Trump to get back online and to avoid moderation.” “It’s an echo chamber of conspiracy theories and harmful rhetoric.” “As the midterms approach we’re seeing election misinformation ramp up.” Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Jacob Jarvis. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Assistant producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production and Music by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Ready? We have the cameras rolling. Hello and welcome to the bunker USA. I'm Jacob Jarvis. In 2017 around a year

1:28.9

into his presidency Donald Trump said Twitter is a wonderful thing for me because I get the word out.

1:34.5

I might not be here talking to you right now as president if I didn't have an honest way of getting

1:39.4

the word out. It used to feel hard to imagine Trump without Twitter or Twitter without Trump.

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So when he was banned from the platform following his posts around the January 6th capital attack,

1:50.3

the prospect of him seeking an alternative loudspeaker felt inevitable,

1:54.0

but he actually went one further when he threw the ultimate social media tantrum

1:59.0

and decided to launch his own platform, Truth Social.

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I was writing for Newsweek around the time of this being touted

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