Google has approved Donald Trump\u2019s Truth Social app for release in its Play Store, opening up a key distribution channel for the social network ahead of US midterm elections.<\/p>\n
Google had previously declined to distribute the app, saying it needed to address the fact that it hosted violent threats and other content that goes against Google\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n
Google, which is owned by Alphabet Inc., confirmed on Wednesday that Truth Social was now available.<\/p>\n
\u201cApps may be distributed on Google Play provided they comply with our developer guidelines, including the requirement to effectively moderate user-generated content and remove objectionable posts such as those that incite violence,\u201d a Google spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Truth Social has agreed to take down content that violates Google\u2019s policies, Google said.<\/p>\n
Axios earlier reported the news of the app\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n
Devin Nunes, chief executive officer of Trump Media & Technology Group, said in a statement that the development represented \u201ca significant milestone in our mission to restore free speech online.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a pleasure to work with Google, and we\u2019re glad they helped us to finally bring Truth Social to all Americans, regardless of what device they use,\u201d Nunes said.<\/p>\n
Google had previously declined to distribute the app, saying it needed to address the fact that it hosted violent threats and other content that goes against Google\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":464291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35045,167,9557,73536],"class_list":["post-464287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-donald-trump","tag-google","tag-google-play-store","tag-truth-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}