What is Truth API? The new paid-for tool giving fast access to Trump's posts, explained
Trump Media & Technology Group has launched a paid API service that provides institutional traders with near-instant access to Truth Social posts. The tool is designed to give high-frequency traders a competitive edge by delivering market-moving information faster than standard public feeds.
Why it matters
This raises ethical and regulatory concerns regarding the potential for market manipulation and the commodification of presidential communications for financial gain.
Trump's Truth Social posts are now sold to traders through Truth API. Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump's Truth Social API launched on Saturday for paying customers. The API tool offers faster access to posts from the "highest-ranking Truth Social accounts." Democratic senators wrote to the SEC that it "appears to be an outrageous abuse of the President's office." Truth Social's new paid service for faster access to the president's social media posts is raising questions — including from some of his own supporters. Trump Media & Technology Group launched Truth API on Saturday. The service sends paying customers a machine-readable feed of posts from the "highest-ranking Truth Social accounts." The company says the updates arrive in "milliseconds."
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