Trump Sued Over $100K Truth Social Feed as Trump Media Eyes Prediction Market Data Deals

The Intercept and Freedom of the Press Foundation have sued President Donald Trump over Truth API, a subscription service that charges up to $100,000 per month for low-latency access to Truth Social posts. US President Donald Trump was sued on August 12 in federal court in Manhattan over Truth API, the Truth Social feed that delivers his posts to paying subscribers for as much as $100,000 a month. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed the complaint alongside Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, the Public Integrity Project, and Altshuler Berzon LLP. It calls the arrangement “extraordinary, corrupt, and unconstitutional,” argues that the First Amendment guarantees equal access to presidential announcements and that the Fifth Amendment bars charging unreasonable sums for them, and asks the court to stop the program. Feed Costs $100,000 Monthly Trump Media launched Truth API on August 1 as a business-to-business subscription carrying low-latency access to posts from the ten most-followed Truth Social accounts, among them @realDonaldTrump, @WhiteHouse, and Vice President JD Vance. Access costs $100,000 per month, or $60,000 for customers w...