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Trump Media & Technology Group announced a paid data feed called Truth API that provides institutional customers, including high-frequency trading firms, real-time access to posts from President Donald Trump's Truth Social account.
Truth Social, the social media platform owned by President Donald Trump's media company, begins selling early access to the president's posts to Wall Street traders on Saturday, the Associated Press reported. The service raises questions about insider trading and the use of public office for private gain, according to the AP.
Trump Media & Technology, the parent company of Truth Social, plans to sell Wall Street traders the ability to see posts from the platform's highest-ranking accounts — including possibly President Donald Trump's — milliseconds before the general public, the Associated Press reported. The plan has drawn criticism from a government ethics expert who called the arrangement "odious."
Trump Media & Technology Group on Thursday announced a paid data feed called Truth API that will give institutional customers, including high-frequency algorithmic trading firms, real-time access to posts from President Donald Trump's Truth Social account. The president's account has 12.9 million followers and has moved stock prices and oil futures through tariff and foreign policy announcements since he retook office in 2025.