Truth Social’s Place in the Social Media IP Landscape: Explained

A contrast between the terms of service of former President Donald Trump’s new social networking service Truth Social and those of other platforms provides a window into how platforms approach user intellectual property in a world in which sharing content is easy and protecting it is hard by design.

Truth Social plans a national rollout in early 2022 as an alternative to Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc., which banned Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection. Truth Social and the Trump Media & Technology Group were created “to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech,” Trump said in an ...