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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Trump isn't going to create his own Twitter or TV network, we know he's terrible at actually building anything. He'll just license his name to Parler or Newsmax/OANN, which is how he's made most of his money anyway. I mean we see the losers he surrounds himself with, doing Trump Twitter from scratch is costly and likely to end poorly. Much easier to just slap your name on something someone else did (and of course it's remarkably on brand for Trump).
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I agree on Trump probably not building his own. Right now there's probably going to be a limbo about anyone starting or heavily investing in new social media companies until we see the fall-out from social media's role in these riots. If there's talk about repealling or seriously adjusting section 230 to make social media companies more liable for content posted on their platforms, it could radically alter the state of the social media landscape and make any social media platform catering to alt-right communities the worst investment imaginable.
It's also difficult to imagine how and alt-right-focused social media platform would make money; any advertiser is going to get boycotted by the mainstream, so it's always just going to be niche advertising at best. App-sales are fine, but they're a one-time cost. Are they going to make it subscription-based? Maybe simply selling user-information?
Though I like imagining Trump investing heavily in his own social media platform for his community, and then the government repealling section 230, and Trump getting sued every time one of his fans posts a violent threat.