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Trump’s social media platform, TRUTH Social, overwhelmed by trolls in first hours

By Christopher Hutton
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Trump’s social media platform, TRUTH Social, overwhelmed by trolls in first hours

Internet trolls flooded former President Donald Trump’s TRUTH Social within hours of the new social media platform’s announcement.

Users flocked to the site Wednesday night after Canadian hacker Aubrey Cottle posted a URL connecting a mobile beta that allowed them to register fake accounts, just hours after the initial announcement and before the site was officially open.

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