RightForge to host Trump social media platform: CEO

The conservative-friendly web infrastructure firm RightForge will host former US president Donald Trump’s new social media platform, Truth Social, its CEO Martin Avila stated.

Avila advised the web information outlet Axios that he anticipated Trump’s new social community to have greater than 75 million customers, and the internet hosting firm has been “laying the groundwork for that.”

“That’s why there will be servers everywhere,” Avila stated in an interview with Axios printed on Tuesday.

Trump was banned from Twitter and Facebook after the January 6 rebellion, however the RightForge CEO stated he believed that the previous president shouldn’t be silenced.

“If you believe that the president should be de-platformed, we believe that you’re not really interested in living in a free country,” Avila advised Axios.

“And that’s really what we’re all about is making sure that America stays true to its core ideas, and that the marketplace of ideas stays open.”

Avila stated that RightForge started constructing a global network after Trump was booted off social media and Amazon pulled the plug on the right-wing social community Parler.

Trump introduced plans final week to launch Truth Social within the newest bid to reclaim his web dominance.

The transfer additional fueled hypothesis that the true property titan is gearing up for one more presidential run in 2024.

In an announcement Tuesday, Trump stated the Trump Media and Technology Group, along with Truth Social and an on-demand video streaming service, “sees opportunities” in different key areas starting from internet companies to fee processing.

The video streaming service will compete with “the increasingly ‘woke’ and politicized ‘entertainment’ programming created by Big Tech and Big Media players,” Trump stated.

“We’ve seen a sitting president of the United States effectively silenced by a small oligarchy of tech titans and ‘mainstream’ media corporations,” he stated.

“I am determined to break their chokehold over the voices of the American People—not just for myself and my own supporters, but for the United States of America!”

Facebook banned Trump indefinitely on January 7, a day after his supporters attacked the Capitol to attempt to forestall certification of Joe Biden’s election victory, and later narrowed the ban to 2 years.

Twitter completely suspended Trump’s account—which had greater than 88 million followers on the time—because of the “risk of further incitement of violence.”

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