A federal lawsuit has been filed opposing Truth Social’s practice of charging $100,000 per month for Wall Street insiders who want access to Donald Trump’s “market-moving” posts.
Beyond being “profoundly corrupt,” the lawsuit argues that it violates the First Amendment.
“It's blatantly unconstitutional,” the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s chief of editorial Kirstin McCudden told All Rise News.
To oppose the so-called “Truth API,” The Freedom of the Press Foundation joined forces with The Intercept, a news organization that declared itself “both unable and unwilling” to shell out six-figure monthly tributes for Trump’s inside information.
“This scheme is extraordinary, corrupt, and unconstitutional, and Plaintiffs bring this case to stop it,” the lawsuit begins.
The Truth API, short for “Application Programming Interface,” is a paywalled feed that delivers faster access to the platform’s most popular accounts: primarily Trump, the White House, and high-ranking government officials like Vice President J.D. Vance, FBI Director Kash Patel, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and others.
Truth Social is owned and operated by Trump Media. Trump is its largest shareholder and is contractually obligated to publish certain social media posts exclusively on that platform first.
Read the lawsuit in full here, and watch the archived video of the full conversation at the top of this newsletter.
