Trump media group announces expansion of TV streaming platform

Trump Media & Technology Group moved a step closer to creating a robust TV streaming platform, the publicly traded company owned primarily by former President Donald Trump said on Monday.

Trump Media, which operates Truth Social, a competitor to Elon Musk’s X platform, said that its custom-built content delivery network, or CDN, is "now operating from multiple sites across the country."

The CDN powers Truth+ Social TV, a streaming service, and the upgrade will make the entity a "more sophisticated distributed content network," the firm said in a statement.

“With additional data centers expected to open soon, our TV streaming capabilities and content are expanding rapidly, consistent with Truth Social’s goal to become the unassailable fortress of free speech on the Internet.” Truth Media CEO Devin Nunes said.

The company said Monday that it aims to create a TV streaming platform consisting of news, Christian content and family friendly programming “that is un-cancellable by Big Tech.”

Trump was kicked off of Twitter on January 8, 2021, as a response to the protests at the U.S. Capitol two days earlier, and he incorporated Trump Media & Technology Group the following month.

Since then, Musk purchased Twitter, renamed it X, and said he supports Trump’s candidacy for reelection, though the former president still primarily uses Truth Social rather than X for posting his thoughts on a daily basis.

The company says that its mission is “to end Big Tech's assault on free speech by opening up the Internet and giving people their voices back.”