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On October 20, 2021, The Fat Orange Bitch announced a new media partnership to force Big Tech on its knees and give him back his Twitter account. What will this new conglomerate of tech and media offer? Apparently, everything.



If you read the fine print, and you should always read the fine print where Trump’s concerned, you will notice his reason for launching this shit show. Yes, big tech is tyrannical because they de-platformed the not president!

As with every other MAGA-friendly attempt at social media, Truth Social’s platform was incredibly easy to get into.



The front page of the website had a form to fill and be put on the waiting list. But if you can get past that why wait? The internet is also impatient. For instance, a tech reporter for the Washington Post, Drew Harwell, had no trouble bypassing the waiting list and creating an account.

Thank you TRUTH Social. Good to be here pic.twitter.com/tD3ClXWCss

— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) October 21, 2021

Michael Thalen, Tech writer for The Daily Dot also easily jumped into the new social media platform.

Was just able to setup an account using the handle @donaldtrump on ‘Truth Social,’ former President Donald Trump’s new social media website.

Although the site is not officially open, a URL was discovered allowing users to sign up anyway. pic.twitter.com/MRMQzjNhma

— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) October 21, 2021

The first clue security on a new social website is bad: You can create accounts using names as this and nothing stops you.

Once people were able to get in and poke around it was not hard to notice where Truth Social developers got their code.



Mastodon, is that you?



That’s right, Truth Social was a literal copy and paste of Mastodon’s code, violating the GPL license.

Even Mastodon weighed in.

Well that looks familiar 😬

— Mastodon 🐘 (@joinmastodon) October 21, 2021

It only took two hours of fun and games before the website was tango down. Someone hacked into Trump’s Truth Social account and posted a fitting NWS image.

As always, when anybody introduces a new toy to the internet they find out the internet does not play well with others. The former piss pig in chief’s new social media website provided a few hours of entertainment on a Wednesday night and not much else.

Cue the womp womp trombone music.