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Truth Social Is So Fu*king Boring.

Mike Weisser
3 min readOct 18, 2022

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So, yesterday I broke down and became a subscriber to Truth Social. I had tried to get on the website when it first went up, but it wasn’t working at all. This time I created a username, added a password, and got right on.

What was the first thing I saw? An ad for a website selling food supplements and when I clicked the link, here’s the message I got:” Microsoft recommends you don’t continue to this site. It has been reported to Microsoft for containing misleading content that could lead you to lose personal info, financial data and even money.”

Oh well. Here’s Big Tech imposing its censorship again. How could any right-thinking American object to a website which is nothing but a financial scam? Since when are financial scams not allowed under the Constitutional doctrine of free speech?

Talking about speech, after you sign into the website, you can choose which accounts you want to follow whenever the account holder puts up new content. It’s a small mélange of alt-right blowhards — Hannity and others like that. But the list also includes Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, who happens to be a favorite target of Trump.

The site’s only ad, some kind of phony food supplement, happens to be the same type of product which was advertised by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show. I listened to Limbaugh for years…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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