Along with Defendant Harp, Scavino reportedly has access to President Trump’s Truth Social account and regularly publishes Truth Social posts on @realDonaldTrump on the President’s behalf.
Truth Social is where Donald Trump is most candid and unfiltered, using the platform to communicate directly with his base. It gives Trump a venue for regular updates and, even after his partial return to Twitter, exists as the default mode of communication between him and his followers.
Truth Social is largely stylized after Twitter where Tweets are instead called Truths and ReTweets are instead called ReTruths. Note that throughout the remainder of this paper we most commonly refer to Truths as posts in order to avoid confusion with the epistemic use of truth (as in true/false).
As Truth Social brands itself as a platform that prioritizes free speech above all else, it has gained a reputation for harboring some of Trump’s most radical supporters. This digital ethnographic case study will examine Truth Social’s emergence amidst a global wave of populist sentiment.
The removal of Trump from Twitter/X raises questions about his continued ability to drive news attention through his alt-tech platform, Truth Social.
This study examines the structural dynamics of Truth Social, a politically aligned social media platform, during two major political events: the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago.
This analysis explicates the extent to which Trump instrumentalizes language on Truth Social and shows how he constructs a “them vs. us" narrative to support his political agenda.