August 3, 2026

Social Media Watch

By STAFF

This week’s report covers political, world, cultural, market, and sci-tech news from July 1-31, 2026

This report contains the Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, and People Advance Reports.

TOP NEWS TAGS

  1. 2026 Elections
  2. Iran War
  3. Progressive State
  4. Judgefare
  5. Ukraine War
  6. Trump Deportations
  7. Mamdani Watch
  8. Social Media Watch
  9. Progressive Islam
  10. Trump 2020 Election Speech

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

  1. 1. IRAN SURPRISE ATTACK THWARTED, AS U.S., GULF STATES RESPOND – Iran launched a surprise missile attack that failed to impact its intended targets, U.S. military bases in the Gulf region. The U.S. and Gulf States allies have responded with renewed air strikes. The Houthis of Yemen have stepped up their efforts to shut down the Red Sea in support of the Iranian regime.
  2. TRUMP IDENTIFIES FOREIGN VULNERABILITIES TO U.S. ELECTIONSPresident Donald Trump delivered a Prime Time Speech that failed to deliver rumored smoking guns, but hinted at ones to come. In addition to calling for a DOJ investigation of alleged voter fraud in Michigan in 2020, the President also identified vulnerabilities in the election system that put them at risk of foreign influence, including from China. He also claims China affected the 2020 election. China has already denied the claims.

The speech’s main moment came with Trump’s claim that a set of documents “proves that for many years, Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot counting systems. They’re vulnerable, and they’re easily compromised, and people within our government knew that.”

Read our full report on the President’s speech.

  1. PROGRESSIVES RAN GLOBAL POLICY ILLEGALLY DURING TRUMP’S FIRST TERMCatherine Herridge has been covering the efforts by progressives in the Trump administration who appear to have committed acts of treason by knowingly omitting and altering intelligence reports on China to protect China from Trump’s scrutiny.

Herridge claimed, “They had to save President Trump from his own instincts, from his own tendencies, and that there was very much a globalist view. And they had to preserve a globalist view. So, whether it was downplaying or suppressing intelligence about the threat from China, whether it was giving a pass and calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation, there was this level of a bureaucracy, a kind of conspiracy that was making decisions about the kind of information that should be reaching policy makers and ultimately the commander-in-chief.”

  1. HAWAII INVALIDATES AMERICA’S SCOTUSThe Hawaiian Supreme Court has issued a recent ruling that spent tens of pages excoriating the Supreme Court of the United States. The majority held the Supreme Court was no longer valid because it overturned Roe, the 1973 ruling that decriminalized murdering unborn children.

The majority also held that due to the white supremacist nature of SCOTUS, Hawaii is no longer bound by its rulings. There have been no arrested issued by the Department of Justice.

  1. TRUMP CLAIMS GAZA DEAL DISARMS HAMASPresident Donald Trump is claiming Hamas will be disarmed, along with other militant Islamist groups, through a deal reaches with his Gaza Board of Peace. Israel has expressed doubts in the efficacy of the deal.

Trump declared, “Today, the Board of Peace reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza. This is a monumental step toward lasting PEACE and SECURITY.

“This agreement is a critical step towards Gaza finally being governed by a new Palestinian government that will work closely with the Board of Peace to help the Palestinian people. At the same time, Israel will have the security it deserves, with Gaza no longer used as a base for terror attacks… As disarmament is completed, Israeli forces will withdraw, and the International Stabilization Force will work with a new Palestinian police force to take responsibility for Gaza being safe for its residents and its neighbors.”

  1. XI’S PURGES CONTINUEAnother heavyweight CCP member found himself purged from power by Chairman Xi. Former Politburo member Ma Xingrui was the latest high-profile leader removed under Xi’s anti-corruption operation. The move shows Xi has still not consolidated power after last year’s attempted coup from within.
  2. FAUCI’S DIARIES EXPOSEDThe architect of the Covid-19 shutdown strategy, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is under more scrutiny as his diary has just been released that reveals a man driven more by ego than science. The diary suggests Fauci may have violated Federal laws in seeking to protect his reputation from the press, and in quashing dissent among the professional classes, including targeting doctors and scientists for terminations. His testimony before a congressional committee might lead to criminal contempt charges. He pled the fifth despite having immunity.
  3. SISTER TAKES PLACE OF FALLEN LINDSEY GRAHAMNot long after Lindsey Graham had spoken to President Trump, he had a sudden medical emergency he would not recover from. It was later learned he had a heart attack due to a ruptured aorta. His sister, Nordone Graham, was appointed by the Republican South Carolina Governor to finish his term.

She said of her acceptance of the appointment. “It is such a privilege to get to finish some of his important work, and I promise to work hard over the next several months to support the president and carry forward the efforts of my brother on behalf of the citizens of South Carolina and the United States.” She added she was sure he would have wanted her to finish his term.

  1. IN SHADOW OF POLITICAL MURDER OF FORMER MP, BURNHAM TAKES THE UK HELMOn Monday, July 20, 2026, Andy Burnham inherited the UK as its new Prime Minister. He was appointed by the Labour Party through unanimous consent after winning a special MP election in Makerfield.

He inherits a divided Kingdom, having just witnessed what increasingly appears to be a political murder of a former MP, Anne Widdecombe, in her home. Widdecombe is reported to have been beaten to death by a progressive activist. He drove three hours to her home to do it. He used a poled object to kill her.

  1. NINTH CIRCUIT RULES PUBLIC SCHOOLS DICTATE ALL BELIEF TO STAFF A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 that a Christian teacher in a public school cannot show students any material that contradicts the school’s supremacist LGBTQ plus ideology.

The dissenting Judge, Lawrence VanDyke, wrote, “Could public school administrators establish a policy allowing office decoration with partisan political messages deemed sufficiently ‘compassionate’ but prohibit—as inherently ‘hostile’—any political speech that did not align with the Democratic Socialists of America platform?…

  1. TRUMP SEALS NUKE DEAL WITH SAUDISPresident Donald Trump has announced an historic multi-billion-dollar deal with Saudi Arabia. The deal will result in U.S. firms being contracted to help the Saudis build a nuclear power plant. Critics warn the Saudis will develop a nuclear arms program through the civil program the U.S. will help it build.
  2. U.S. COURT OF APPEALS RULES HOMONORMATIVITY TRUMPS RELIGIOUS LIBERTYIn a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals of the First Circuit ruled Christian private schools that take any funds from the state of Maine can legally be required to openly accept and celebrate homonormativity. This is despite the fact that their sacred book specifically condemns homosexuality.

The court wrote, “Just as combatting religious discrimination qualifies as a legitimate governmental pursuit, so too combatting sexual-orientation and gender-identity discrimination rises to that level.”

  1. ANTHROPIC FREE TO EXPORTPresident Trump has lifted his export ban on Anthropic’s AI product. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced “Anthropic has agreed to proactively detect and address security risks associated with the models; to work diligently with the US government on protocols and standards and releases for Mythos, Fable, and future models… The controls … are withdrawn. A license is no longer required for the export, reexport, or in-country transfer, including deemed export or deemed reexport, of the Mythos or Fable models.”
  2. 14. PROGRESSIVE JUDGE MOVES AGAINST ATTORNEY GENERAL – Progressive Judge Kathleen Williams is upping the Judgefare wars with an aggressive move to disbar the acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Associate Attorney General Stanley.

The move comes as the Trump administration announced plans to investigate the political bias of the very governing bodies the judge hopes to use to disbar American prosecutors, state bar authorities. The Judge’s move came as a part of a ruling striking down the IRS settlement by President Trump and the DOJ. Blanche’s Senate nomination process to become the permanent AG has been delayed in Senate committee.

Now, the President is hinting he might withdraw Blanche’s nomination and leave him as the acting AG until after the election. After the election, the two Republicans holding up the nomination, who lost their primary races, will be replaced with “real” Republicans.

  1. WALZ PARDONS CHILD RAPISTIn what appears to be a move to save an illegal alien from deportation, Tim Walz pardoned an illegal alien convicted of raping a child. He was joined on a three-member panel by Democrats Keith Ellison and Natalie Hudson. Ellison is Minnesota’s Attorney General. Hudson is the state’s Chief Justice.

DHS spokeswoman Lauren Bis responded to the decision, claiming “Tou Lue Vang lost his legal status following his conviction for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl.” Marco Rubio has intervened and the illegal immigrant has been deported.

  1. PROTESTS GROW IN UKRAINE OVER ZELENSKY’S MILITARY FIRINGSUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has chosen Major General Ihor Skybyuk to become the new chief of the General Staff of the Armed Force. The move follows numerous shake-ups in military leadership that are leading to street protests from Ukrainians.

Zelensky said of the appointment, “We determined the order of further steps. Today, decisions regarding the replacement of the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be formalized — the relevant decrees are being prepared. Together with Mykhailo Drapatyi and Yevhenii Khmara, we determined that the new chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be Major General Ihor Skybyuk — a very experienced military officer, with whom the new commander-in-chief defended Ukraine side by side.”

  1. MAMDANI RELEASES EVIL CAPITALIST “PROSCRIPTION” LISTThe Marxist-Islamist Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, has just released what appears to be a de facto proscription list for his foreign-paid street fighters to target. He released a list of property owners, including their names and addresses, who own another home outside the city.

While the information is public, the signal is clear; Attack these people. Mamdani ally and national Democrat Socialists of America co-chair Megan Romer made that clear when she said on Fox News “We will win by making conditions so intolerable to the ruling class that they would rather give in to our demands than live with the disturbance we cause.” Disturbance is a dog whistle for violence. Ruling Class is a dog whistle for white people.

  1. GOP DEFENDS TRANSGENDERS IN MILITARYFour members of the Republican Party voted with Democrats to strike down an amendment in the defense authorization act. This amendment would permanently ban transgenders in the military. This would also have prevented biological males from using biological females’ private spaces. Right now, it is only Trump’s executive orders that sustain this standard in the U.S. military.
  2. TRUMP REDEPLOYS TARIFF GEOPOLITICSPresident Donald Trump appears prepared to utilize tariffs as a geopolitical tool once again. He announced a 50% tariff on Canada that came without warning. He followed up this announcement with more tariffs targeting multiple nations he accuses of practicing “forced labor.” This could indicate the administration believes it has a legal path to apply tariffs that don’t conflict with SCOTUS’ recent ruling on tariffs.
  3. BRITISH BOBBIES ARREST WHITE MAN FOR CRIME OF BEING ATTACKED BY BLACK MENA viral video shows a young man getting assaulted by black men before female British police break up the ruckus. The black men fled, leaving the white man to be arrested. The Birmingham police announced only the white man would be charged, even after considering a review of the viral video. The police are also calling on the video to be banned from being shared on social media.
  4. JUDGE PAUSES PARAMOUNT-WARNER DEAL FOR TWO WEEKSU.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the Northern District of California has put a two-week hold on the DOJ-approved Paramount-Warner merger. The deal is being held up by a California lawsuit seeking to prevent it from happening. The judge was nominated by former President Joe Biden.
  5. U.S. HOUSE PASSES SYMBOLIC WAR POWERS RESOLUTION – Four Republicans crossed the aisles to help Democrats pass a non-binding War Powers Resolution aimed at signaling lack of support for the War in Iran. The four Republicans are the usual suspects that traditionally support Democrats during most critical votes. They are Tom Barrett of Michigan, Warren Davidson of Ohio, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, and lame-duck representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

HEADLINES MISSED

  1. PAYING FOR TRUMP’S TRUTH?President Trump’s Truth Social announced plans to offer corporations the opportunity to see the most influential Truth Social posters’ posts a few seconds before everyone else does. The offer is for institutional clients, specifically banks, hedge funds, and high-frequency traders, only. You pay for a few seconds of insider trading.

The ethicality of the decision is being questioned across the political sphere, as is the legality. The question is this: Is this not simply selling Presidential influence? The product is Presidential power to move markets, not Trump’s wisdom. The interim CEO, Kevin McGurn, said, “Markets are already reacting to Truth Social posts. The Truth API will provide direct, licensed access to the platform’s most market-moving content, while allowing us to monetize our own assets.”

  1. 2. CHINA OFICIALLY BECOMES AN ETHNO-NATIONALIST STATE – China’s Ethnic Unity Law took effect July 1, 2026. The law appears to attempt to advance Han ethnic supremacism both within China and globally. Global concerns about the law’s effects on ethnic minorities within China were met by claims from CCP officials that the law was meant to “protect them.”
  2. FCC POISED TO END LOCAL TV STATION MONOPOLY RULEThe FCC is signaling it is about to get rid of a rule that prevented one company from having more than a 39% presence in the local tv market. The rule is being nixed, in part, to make way for a deal between Tegna and Nexstar that will give Nextar 80% presence in the local tv market.

The FCC Chair, Brendan Carr, said the rule will not be completely removed, but exceptions, such as the Nextar deal, will be allowed, when it is in the “public interest” to do so. The decision is sure to be challenged in court, where opponents assert only congress can make such changes, including adding exemptions.

  1. SOUTH KOREANS GO NORTH WITH FAKE NEWS LAWSouth Korea has passed a new law that penalizes journalists for sharing “fake news.” The Journalists Association of Korea said of the law, “Even if a law’s objective is legitimate, it could erode the foundations of democracy if it’s enforced in a way that discourages the media and ordinary citizens from freely criticizing and scrutinizing those in power.”

This is yet another lurch towards policies more in keeping with North Korea than what South Korea has been after the Korean War.

  1. CANADA’S NEW HATE SPEECH LAW IS ALREADY TRIGGERING POLICE VISITSThe Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is reporting numerous Canadians have already been contacted by police about their social media posts in response to the new “Combatting Hate Act” becoming law. Currently, the UK is number one in social media arrests worldwide, which is worth noting because Canada’s anti-speech laws are similar to the UK’s anti-speech laws.
  2. SCIENTISTS SHOW HUMAN SPERM COULD BE GROWN IN A LABThe growing human male infertility rate could be offset by growing human sperm in a laboratory’s mini-testes. A group of scientists published a report in the peer-reviewed journal “Cell Stem Cell” claiming to show they are close to growing human sperm in a lab. Researchers are hoping to convert stem cells to sperm cells by exposing them to chemical signals that will do the transforming.

From the report, “… the researchers combined the human or monkey germ cells with supportive cells from mouse fetuses. Together, these cells self-organized into a three-dimensional structure called a xenogeneic reconstituted testis… What grew in this setup closely resembled both the appearance and gene activity patterns of real human germ cells during the early stages of sperm development.”

  1. EUTHANASIA BILL RESURFACES IN BRITIANA new bill has been introduced in Britian that will legalize euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide. The bill is the same as the one that failed in 2024. This is just the latest effort to legalize the creation of a suicide industry that eventually enables the state to nudge economic liabilities towards death.
  2. SURROGATE SUED BY GAY COUPLE FOR KEEPING BABYAn unborn child with a cleft lip faced abortion in Canada if a gay couple had their way. The child was living in the womb of a surrogate mother, who refused to abort the child despite the gay couple’s demands. The lawsuit was filed in Ontario, Canada’s Superior Court. The woman gave birth to the child; now the gay couple is seeking monetary compensation after failing to compel her to murder the unborn child.

The gay couple wrote the surrogate mother, “Considering that medical tests indicate that the fetus has, or is likely to have, a genetic, chromosomal or other abnormality or defect, and in accordance with article 8.5 (a) of our surrogacy agreement … we want to inform you of our wish that the pregnancy be terminated. Although very difficult, this decision is free and informed.” The child was born healthy.

  1.  BOKO HARAM HAS AI – The African Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram have been using AI to help optimize their operations on the ground. The terrorist group used a range of AI chatbots, from ChatGPT to DeepSeek. The revelations were revealed through interviews conducted by 27 members of Boko Haram over the last two years.
  2. AI IS GOING INTO TRILLION DOLLAR DEBTA surge in hidden debt among AI giants like Oracle and Meta is setting off alarms in the industry. The hidden debt comes from future payment liabilities for operations not yet online to make money. For instance, leases and property taxes must be paid on sites that are earmarked for databases that haven’t been built or completely built yet. The hidden debt amounts to more than $1.65 trillion.
  3. VIRGINIA LOOKS TO LEGALIZE STATUTORY RAPEVirginia’s “Reproductive Freedom Act” would decriminalize statutory rape by giving girls under 18 the legal “right” to consent. Josh Hetzler, one of the challenging attorneys to the bill, said “Among other wild consequences, it will eliminate statutory rape laws for consenting minors, since the amendment provides an unqualified ‘fundamental right to reproductive freedom’ to every ‘individual,’ without any limitation on age. This is wrong and extremely dangerous for Virginia.”
  4. NICARAGUA ENDS ELECTIONSThe far-left government of Nicaragua has announced to the country that elections are now over. The Co-President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, declared, “there will be no elections.” Ortega and his wife have ruled Nicaragua through the Sandinista Party for nearly 20 years, though not with the total rule they now possess, at all levels of government, including local government.
  5. 300K NORTH CAROLINA STUDENT LOANS IN DEFAULTNorth Carolina has released a report that reveals over 300,000 people in the state have defaulted on their student loans. This amounts to billions of dollars owed. Nationally, one in five student loan borrowers are in default.

PEOPLE ADVANCE

  1. TRUMP’S MAIL-IN VOTING XO RESTOREDThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is allowing President Trump’s executive order limiting mail-in voting to go forward. The court ruled the Democrats’ lawsuit is premature. The ruling increases the chances the President’s executive order will stand at least for the midterms, adding at least one layer of citizen verification to the questionable process of mass mailer voting.
  2. TRUMP NO-SIGNS DIGITAL DOLLAR BANThanks to President Donald Trump’s non-signature, America is under a state digital dollar ban at least until 2030. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act was allowed to become law simply through the President’s non-signing. Within that law is a provision that prohibits the U.S. from developing a U.S. digital dollar at least until 2030.
  3. UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS FALL TO HISTORIC LOWSThe U.S. Labor Department’s jobs report reveals an historic low in unemployment applications. Last month, 187,000 people filed for unemployment, a number not seen since September 6, 1969. The figure also beat the expert’s predicted number for unemployment filings at 222,000 people.
  4. BIG INFLATION DROP FUELS ECONOMIC OPTIMISMAn unexpected drop in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) of 0.4% is leading some economists to revise their expectations of a flat economic outlook for this quarter. The price drop is the biggest since April 2020, just before Biden took office.

The new annual inflation rate is down to 3.5% with signs of further price easing continuing. While economists expected some drop, this drop was more than twice what was expected.

  1. FEDERAL COURT SAYS NO TO PRITCHARD’S TUITION SUBSIDIZED ILLEGALSA Federal District Court has ruled that the state of Illinois cannot offer in-state college tuition benefits to illegal aliens. Federal law explicitly prohibits states from providing college aid to illegal aliens. The ruling struck down a law passed by the Illinois legislature and signed into law by Progressive Governor J.B. Pritzker.
  2. LE PEN STILL CONVICTED, BUT CAN RUN IN 2027Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Rally Party, had her embezzlement conviction upheld. However, her eligibility to run for public office has been reduced in time for her to run in the expected 2027 election.

Her party currently leads in the polls. Le Pen must face house arrest, an ankle monitor, and curfews, to run for Prime Minister. She had previously claimed she would not run under those conditions. Now, it appears she has changed her mind. Since the announcement, her party has increased their lead in the polls.

  1. NEW JERSEY ASSAULT RIFLE BAN ASSAULTED BY COURTThe 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down New Jersey’s recent ban on “assault weapons.” This is the first time a Federal Appeals Court has directly ruled against any state’s “assault weapons” ban.
  2. PRO-LIFER GETS 7-FIGURE SETTLEMENT AFTER BIDEN PROSECUTIONA Pro-Lifer convicted of violating the FACE act received a settlement of seven figures from the Department of Justice. The DOJ settled with Paul Vaughn, who sued the government for unconstitutionally prosecuting him. The Biden administration raided his home at gunpoint to arrest him for the crime of protesting the murdering of unborn children.

The Judge ruling in the case wrote, “Put simply, U.S. citizens or nationals must be treated no worse than illegal aliens.” The state has 14 days to file an appeal with the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court.

  1. GOP TARGETS “WOKE” ABAThe House Oversight Committee has announced plans to investigate the accusations that the American Bar Association has become a progressive weapon of political war.

Representative Brandon Gill (R-TX) said a task force investigating them will “analyze how the American Bar Association (ABA) has weaponized its accreditation authority to promote DEI policies that are contrary to federal civil rights law and the negative consequences in the legal profession that result from these harmful policies. Members will also explore how Congress can help permanently eliminate DEI policies within American institutions, including the legal profession and academy.”

  1. TRUMP ADMIN LOOKING TO DENATURALIZE FRAUDThe Trump administration announced efforts to root out U.S. citizenship naturalization fraud. The White House intends on conducting the “largest denaturalization effort ever.” The White House posted on X, “When you commit fraud during the naturalization process, you forfeit the right to keep your U.S. citizenship…”
  2. WNBA STAR STANDS TALL FOR WOMENSophie Cunningham is going viral for her multiple acts of defiance against wokeness in a women’s basketball league that embraces it, the WNBA. She plays for the Indiana Fever, which is also home of the league’s superstar, Caitlin Clark. When asked by reporters about her stance against men presenting as women playing in women’s sports, she unapologetically doubled down on her stance.
  3. CALIFORNIA LOSES NATIONAL CAR PART CONTROL – A new rule change from the EPA effectively ends California’s stranglehold on the car parts industry. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced “Americans should not be forced to solely rely on California to certify aftermarket products. Starting today, Americans can trust that products certified by SEMA meet federal requirements and can be used to repair vehicles.

“The Tampering Policy explains how a person may demonstrate that an aftermarket product does not adversely affect automotive emissions by documenting that an appropriate vehicle equipped with the product will pass the same emissions tests used by the original equipment manufacturer to certify the vehicle under the Clean Air Act.”

Russia charges Telegram founder with aiding terrorism and puts him on wanted list abcnews.com
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Russia’s main domestic security agency said Wednesday that Pavel Durov, founder of the messaging app Telegram, has been charged with “aiding terrorism” and put on an international wanted list.

Telegram’s administration has not removed “numerous channels, chats and bots” that are “actively used by Ukrainian intelligence agencies, terrorist, and extremist organizations to prepare and coordinate acts of sabotage and terrorism, mass murder, and cyberfraud” in Russia, the agency said in a statement Wednesday,

The Federal Security Service is also known as the FSB,

Charges against Durov come as Russia restricts Telegram, one of the most popular messaging apps in the country. Durov earlier this year announced that the Russian authorities opened a criminal investigation against him and accused them of fabricating pretexts to restrict access to Telegram as part of an attempt to “suppress the right to privacy and free speech.”

 

Teenager drops social media addiction lawsuit against Meta www.bbc.co.uk
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A Florida teenager who sued Meta claiming that he was addicted to and harmed by his use of platforms, such as Instagram, has dropped his case.

The 15-year-old plaintiff, known by the initials R.K.C., had in recent weeks settled the same claims against TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube, all of which have been accused in a large lawsuit of creating addictive platforms harmful to children.

R.K.C.’s claims were to go before a Los Angeles jury next week as part of court proceedings that have seen Meta and YouTube lose once already.

A Meta spokeswoman told the BBC: “The claims never held up, and this outcome makes clear that we will not back away from defending ourselves against baseless lawsuits.”

Lawyers for R.K.C., Emily Jeffcott and Rahul Ravipudi, told the BBC that the young plaintiff “came into this process wanting to hold social media companies accountable and push for changes to protect young people like himself”.

“He did that,” they added.

Trump Media Company Unveils Insider Trading Service www.truthdig.com
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Starting August 1, Trump Media and Technology Group will launch a new data feed aimed at high-frequency trading firms whose profits are made by making trades a fraction of a second faster than everyone else.

It will provide “licensed, real-time access to posts from the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts.” In other words, the feed will let you know what Trump has said before anyone else knows, meaning it’s well worth the tab that Truth Social will charge to see Trump’s posts before the rest of the public sees them — up to $100,000 per month.

That’s a pittance relative to what could be made, because Trump’s words on Truth Social — about his war in Iran, about his latest tariffs, about the Fed — have caused the stock market to soar or drop. So, if you’re a trader on Wall Street, you’ll make millions if you know what he’s posting a fraction of a second before everyone else knows. Perhaps more to the point, if you’re behind on that news, “you’ll get crushed,” as one hedge-fund executive told the Financial Times.

The feed will let you know what Trump has said before anyone else knows.

No wonder Trump Media’s interim CEO Kevin McGurn is gloating that the feed will “become a meaningful, ongoing source of revenue for the company, creating lasting value for shareholders.” Trump Media has been unprofitable until now.

Trump, of course, is the company’s largest shareholder.

President Trump’s Truth Social announced plans to offer corporations the opportunity to see the most influential Truth Social posters’ posts a few seconds before everyone else does. The offer is for institutional clients, specifically banks, hedge funds, and high-frequency traders, only. You pay for a few seconds of insider trading.

The ethicality of the decision is being questioned across the political sphere, never mind the legality of it. The question is, is this not simply selling Presidential influence? The product is the Presidential power, not Trump’s wisdom. The interim CEO, Kevin McGurn, said, “Markets are already reacting to Truth Social posts. The Truth API will provide direct, licensed access to the platform’s most market-moving content, while allowing us to monetize our own assets.”

Trump Sells Early Access to Truth Social Posts — Banks and Hedge Funds Get a Few Seconds’ Advantage – Bitcoin Foundation
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Trump Media & Technology Group has announced the launch of a paid Truth API service. Starting August 1, 2026, institutional clients–banks, hedge funds, and high-frequency traders–will get access to posts from President Trump and nine other influential accounts a few seconds before regular users.

The service is designed for algorithmic traders who depend on speed. TMTG has already confirmed that some clients have subscribed before the official launch. Pricing and the exact delay haven’t been disclosed.

Trump’s Truth Social posts have repeatedly triggered sharp moves in financial markets. One standout example: on April 9, 2025, Trump announced a 90-day tariff pause, sending US stocks sharply higher within minutes. Other examples include tariff comments on China and remarks on the Iran conflict.

TMTG said the feed will cover 10 of the platform’s most influential accounts, including Donald Trump himself, his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and allies such as Dan Bongino and Sean Hannity. An archive of posts dating back to 2022 is also available.

Interim TMTG CEO Kevin McGurn said:

“Markets are already reacting to Truth Social posts. The Truth API will provide direct, licensed access to the platform’s most market-moving content, while allowing us to monetize our own assets.”

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Britain will introduce a default overnight curfew on social media apps for 16- and 17-year-olds, the government said, adding new restrictions for older teenagers to its plan to introduce a sweeping ban on social media for under-16s.

Affected users would be blocked from using apps between midnight and 6 a.m. unless they change the default setting. Features designed to keep users scrolling for longer, including videos that automatically play one after another, would also be switched off by default.

The new measures aim to prevent a cliff edge for those who will gain access to social media when they turn 16, and offer some protection from the negative effects of late-night scrolling.

“These measures will be crucial in helping young people get the sleep they need, focus on school and college, and spend more quality time with family and friends,” technology minister Liz Kendall said in a statement.

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The First Amendment has been under a decade-long attack from the left with mainstream oppressors bulldozing anyone who opposed COVID’s origin story, engaged in scientific debates over climate change and gender norms, or argued about the emerging reality of voter fraud.

Now, a new bipartisan bill led by Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) aims to tamp down the onslaught of online censorship pervading modern society with real repercussions for any government agency or representative that violates that sacred right.

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Americans are spending significantly less time socializing face-to-face than they were 20 years ago, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey.

Axios reports that the average time Americans spend socializing per day has dropped from 45 minutes to 35 minutes over the last 20 years, a trend that cuts across every generation, ethnicity, and income level.

The drop-off has sparked concern among sociologists and public health officials, who warn of a growing epidemic of loneliness and social isolation

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Often untethered to unfair foreign trade practices, President Donald Trump’s fetish for tariffs is foolish. Tariffs reduce prosperity and opportunity for the vast majority of the public in order to benefit far smaller numbers of Americans in specific industries. Still, tariffs have value when it comes to penalizing unfair economic activity by U.S. trade partners. Trump is thus right to now threaten new tariffs on the European Union and European nations over their threat to American technology companies.

In a social media post last Friday, Trump warned that European countries were discussing the “imminent” introduction of digital services taxes on U.S. technology giants. He added that any “country that imposes such a Tax will immediately be met with a 100% TARIFF on any and all Goods sent to the [U.S.].” While Trump’s 100% tariff rate is arbitrary, he is right to warn of robust action. Contrary to their claims of justified regulation, the European digital taxes in question serve a simple and wholly unjustified purpose: extorting American companies.

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Meta is pausing a divisive employee tracking program after an internal security issue exposed potentially sensitive data collected through the initiative to other workers.

“We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards and while we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, we’re pausing it while we investigate,” says company spokesperson Tracy Clayton.

Meta rolled out the Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI) tool in April to US employees. The tool “collects computer inputs such as mouse movements, click locations and keystrokes, as well as screen content,” according to workers who have been petitioning against it over privacy, security, and personal liberty concerns. When MCI first launched, employees couldn’t opt out, but that changed to a limited degree after workers protested.

Meta executives have repeatedly defended the data-gathering project, saying it was necessary to train AI systems to operate computer software the way humans do and that employees were the best examples for the artificial intelligence to learn from.

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One of Canada’s top constitutional freedom groups warned that a proposed social media ban for children under age 16 could create a host of “privacy-violating” rules leading to a nationwide-mandated digital ID.

Reacting to news of a social media ban proposed by the Liberal government, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) warned in an X post that the ban could lead to overreaching digital ID laws, noting that parents should be in charge of their children’s online use.

“The Justice Centre opposes government internet surveillance and the displacement of parents as the primary decision-makers responsible for protecting young people from online harms,” it said in its X statement.

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That old saw about politicians eventually getting around to taxing the air we breathe hasn’t quite come true in Illinois — yet. First, Illinois Democrats have to figure out how to tax social media.

Judging by this first effort, we can relax because if Democrats in the Land of Lincoln don’t understand what social media is and how to figure out how to tax it, our air is safe.

“A nearly $56 billion state spending plan is headed to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk after the Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature approved it in the early-morning hours of another overtime spring session,” the Chicago Tribune‘s Dan Petrella noted last week. “The biggest source of new revenue is a new per-user tax on large social media companies.”