Why Trump’s Social Media Firm Is Awash in Legal Cases: QuickTake

Donald Trump’s newly public social media company is entangled in many legal cases, the bulk of them involving suspected misdeeds by the executives who helped set up the company and merge it with a public entity — and by the former president himself.

It all started with Truth Social, the right-wing social platform launched by Trump in 2021 after he was banned by Twitter and Facebook for posts concerning the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol that they determined violated their policies. Trump formed a company, Trump Media & Technology Group, with a mission to counter ...