Common Dreams.

The news comes as Trump faces scrutiny for promoting companies on Truth Social that he bought stock in.

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    4 days ago

    I don’t understand. It takes a fraction of a second to publish a post. Are they adding a delay to his posts, and then charging a fee to get them instantly? This article has like 2 dozen paragraphs and yet never explains.

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      4 days ago

      Publishing the post sure.

      But propagating notification alerts to followers isn’t reliably that fast.

      Having a paid queue to be alerted first makes sense technically.

      Huge ethical issues though. This is clearly just corruption. Pay me money and you’ll get insider trading information that won’t actually be called that.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      Are they adding a delay to his posts, and then charging a fee to get them instantly?

      Maybe. Or maybe they’re just charging a vig for nothing.

      Given how poor the site is built and managed, either is possible.