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The company building Trump Media’s tech has historic links to Iran, Russia, and China

Three companies brokered a complex deal to build Donald Trump’s Truth Social. How they’re all involved is a mystery even to them.

To better understand the nature of TMTG’s burgeoning media holdings and the companies building it, Fortune examined dozens of business filings from the U.S. and abroad, and spoke to seven sources that previously worked with Perception’s cofounders, its current chair Matjaz “Matt” Vidmar and CEO John Mills. What emerged from these sources was a “no questions asked” policy at Perception and previous companies connected to Vidmar and Mills that led them to work with Chinese and Russian state-backed propaganda networks, Islamist television channels, and Iranian corporations. On Aug. 5, the same day TMTG issued a press release announcing its CDN was up and running, the three filed articles of organization for a new limited liability company called WCT Streaming headquartered at 1405 Highway 505 in Dodson.

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