Oops, Donald Trump is a bit hypocritical with Truth Social

Donald Trump wants to set up a social platform with Truth without censorship and strict rules, but that is already going quite wrong.

After then US president Donald Trump was kicked off Twitter after yet another bleak Tweet, he decided to set up his own platform with blackjack and hookers. With Truth Social, Trump wants to create a ‘censorship-free social medium’. Let Truth Social break its own rules before an official launch. Not that this is a surprise, but still. The irony is there.

Trump plays with his own rules on Truth Social

The social media banned a user named @DevinNunesCow. “This is censorship,” creator Matt Ortega wrote on Twitter, detailing mashable† Why does the platform choose not to allow such a seemingly nonsensical name?

For that we have to go back a few years, when @DevinCow was big news. It Twitter account was indicted by a certain Devin Nunes, a former Republican politician and dairy farmer. The Twitter account was a comic interpretation of how a Nunes cow would use Twitter. Not according to the politician himself, as the lawsuit showed.

And now Trump with his network is censoring an account that references the spoof account that was relevant during his presidential career. For a social medium that would be more open and without censorship, an account name with a nod to a comedy account apparently proves too much.