Former US President Donald Trump announced plans to launch a new social network, Truth Social.
He said the platform would "stand up to the tyranny of big tech companies," accusing them of stifling opposition voices in the United States.
"We live in a world where Taliban (the radical Islamist group that is re-ruling Afghanistan) have a huge presence on Twitter, but your favorite American president is silenced," Trump wrote.
"Everyone asks me why doesn't someone stand up to Big Tech (the big companies that run the biggest platforms on the internet)?" Well, we will soon!” he added.
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Trump Media and Technology Group (Trump Media&Technology Group -TMTG), which he chairs, also intends to launch a video-on-demand subscription service.
Trump was either banned or suspended from social networks such as Twitter and Facebook after a crowd of his supporters stormed the US Congress building in Washington in January of this year.
Five people, including a police officer, were killed in the riots on Capitol Hill.
Trump and his advisers have since hinted that they plan to create their own social networking platform.
He launched the site earlier this year From the Desk of Donald J Trump (From the desk of Donald Trump or more loosely: Firsthand), which was often called a blog.
But the website was permanently shut down less than a month after launch.
Jason Mueller, a Trump aide, said it was merely an aid to a broader effort.
An early version of his latest venture, Truth sousl, it will be open to invited guests next month, and will have a "national presentation" in the first three months of 2022, according to TMTG's press release.
TMTG said its video-on-demand service will also offer entertainment programming - news, podcasts and more.
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James Clayton, North American technology journalist
Donald Trump's team is making a big fuss about this.
However, there is no indication that the new company has a working platform yet.
The new site is just a registration page.
He wants to create a platform to rival Twitter or Facebook, but it's just not going to happen.
The platform is by its very nature openly politicized.
It will not be a big chat room where ideas and opinions are exchanged like Twitter, nor a place where the whole family is like Facebook.
What it could be is a more successful version of other "free speech" social networking platforms like Parler or Geb.
Donald Trump apparently wants the megaphone back.
He thinks this could be a trump card up his sleeve.
But if he really wants to be heard, he needs to be unbanned by the Big Tech platforms and put back on them - and that's not going to happen anytime soon.
Why Trump is blocked on social media?
Trump's Twitter account he was first blocked for 12 hours in January, when he called the people who stormed the US Congress "patriots".
Hundreds of his supporters entered the building, as representatives of the US Congress tried to make official the victory of Joseph Biden in last year's presidential election.
Twitter has warned that it will permanently block Trump's account if he violates the rules again.
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After returning to Twitter, Trump posted two tweets, and they were the final straw.
Twitter management said that both tweets violated the rule about glorification of violence.
When the account was unblocked after 12 hours, Trump wrote two tweets, which the company's leaders saw as the final straw.
In the first, he wrote: “The 75 million great American patriots who voted for me and America first will have their voice long into the future. No one will let them down, in any way!!!".
At the time, Twitter stated that this tweet "indicates that President Trump is not ready for a peaceful handover of power".
Trump then wrote another tweet: "For all those wondering, I will not be at the inauguration on January 20th."
Twitter executives explained that "many supporters saw this as confirmation that the election was not legitimate."
Both tweets represent a "violation of the policy on the glorification of violence," the company said at the time.
When his personal account was suspended, Trump tweeted from the official account of the President of the United States (@Potus) and announced "the possibility of creating his own platform" and protest against Twitter, but the tweets were deleted as soon as they were posted.
Trump's accounts have also been blocked on Facebook, Twitch and Snapchat.
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