Privacy Expert Says Trump's New Social Media App Shouldn't Be Trusted

A privacy expert that spoke with the Washington Post this week said that the disastrous rollout of Donald Trump's new social media app, Truth Social, should give all users cause for concern about how well they will handle their data. In fact, the expert said that he can't understand why anyone would trust them with their data. The site and app were clearly rushed, meaning corners were cut in every possible area, which could leave your personal data up for grabs. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Donald Trump's truth, social, social media outlet officially launched this week. And man, was it not ready to launch ever since president's day? Which of course was the official launch day. The thing has been Besie with problem after problem after problem, including a 13 hour where you couldn't even get on it at all. And then a 300,000 person wait list. And of course there have been other problems here and there, including a, a heck of a lot of censorship for a website that boasts about not censoring anybody, but the biggest problem, according to a cyber security analyst might be in the website's design itself. This is coming from bill Fitzgerald, who, again, he's a privacy researcher. And he had this to say to the Washington post. He said the basic thing they needed to actually get right to get someone in the door they couldn't get, right. There's no better sign of rushed implementation than the fact that you can't onboard anybody. Of course, referring to the fact that you've got this wait list, people trying to get in and they can't. So I'm hard pressed to understand why anyone would trust that these people would keep their information safe.

I mean, makes sense. Right? You, you, you can't even run a website that's capable of staying online. So how in the world are we supposed to trust you with people's phone numbers, email addresses and whatever other information you asked for the, from them when they signed up, th this seems like a very big cyber security risk and cybersecurity breach waiting to happen, but that's not all okay. It's not just that this one researcher says, Hey, probably shouldn't trust 'em with your data. The big problem comes from the fact that one, this site was rushed. It was not ready to launch, but they decided to launch it anyway. But two, the fact that they actually base their entire backend, basically, you know, the coding of the website on open source data. What that means is there is a group. Um, let me find it here. Open source software called mass to Don, and basically what Mata Don does.

You know, it's kind of like a website builder, right? It's open source. So anybody in the world can use it, which means anybody in the world can figure out the ins and outs of it. That's the problem with it? You know, kind of like building a geo city's webpage. Everybody is how to do that. I'm sorry. I'm probably dating myself with that reference there, but either way, it's very easy to crack into again, because so many different people have access to it. So it's easy for anybody. Again, you learn the ins and outs of it. You can figure out how to get into the back end, pretty darn easily. And that's the big problem. They didn't take the time to code this whole thing themselves to build something from scratch. I mean, if you look at it, it's essentially a carbon copy of Twitter at this point, except that they're not called tweets, they're called truths.

They don't have REWE. They have re truths, you know, cuz it's truth, social. And as I mentioned, of course, they're having a lot of censor, uh, censorship issues for a website that says free speech, no censorship whatsoever. Here is what the Washington post said. Uh, people are banned from trying to trick or mislead a other users violating anyone's privacy or publicity rights. I agree with that or posting messages that depict violence or include messages related to sexual fetishes, sugar babies, or any kind of sexually suggestive phrases. People are also forbidden from posting anything false indecent, misleading, profane, obscene, filthy, or otherwise objectionable. And it's that phrase right there. Otherwise objectionable, that means there are going to be moderators because you can't program object ability into an algorithm, right? If you could, right. We're at the age of AI suddenly, and we've got other problems to worry about. So they basically outline in their own terms of service. This is what we're gonna ban you for. That's not even the worst one.

Also prohibits anyone from attempting to quote, disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm in our opinion, us and or the site. So us being of course, Donald Trump, social m