We may be living in the ‘post-truth’ era, you can still post a truth. That is the name of the messages on Truth Social, the clone of Twitter launched by Donald Trump. You can also ‘re-truth’ someone else’s truth. What would you call the platform’s users? truthers? truthers? What is the verb? Truth, truth, truth?
No, for the language-sensitive it is a relief that Trump’s new toy has been a fiasco for the time being. Yet I secretly hope that he continues to muddle through, and that other power-hungry rich people in his wake will soon all want to have their own social medium. Just for the status, next to their superyacht.
One Twitter creates a permanent verbal civil war, but when there are a hundred, nobody can keep up with it. The more splits, the faster each platform becomes a glorified app group. You don’t get the truth back with it, but well, we were past that anyway. At least it will be nice and quiet.