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Truth Social Crashes as Trump Live-Posts Iran Bombing


The social network started experiencing global outages within minutes of Donald Trump posting details of a US military strike on Iran.

Starting around 8 pm ET on Saturday, attempts to load the social network, which is owned by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), displayed error messages. Trump’s initial Truth Social announcement that the United States had entered Israel’s war against Iran posted at 7:46 pm ET, stating that the US had waged a “very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.” Trump’s account on the social media platform X posted a screenshot of the bombing announcement at 7:53 pm ET. The email read in part, “If you aren’t following President Donald J. Trump on Truth Social, you’re missing an essential resource for navigating world affairs today.”

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