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The
move comes a day before a decision from Facebook Inc's oversight
board on whether to uphold Trump's indefinite suspension from
the platform. Trump was barred from a slew of social media
platforms following the deadly Jan. 6 storming of the U.S.
Capitol by his supporters.
Trump's senior adviser, Jason Miller, said in a tweet that this
collection of posts was not the social media platform that Trump
has plans to launch. "We'll have additional information coming
on that front in the very near future," he tweeted.
The site, which was first reported by Fox News, is dubbed "From
the Desk of Donald J. Trump" and contains posts from Trump that
can be shared and liked. A source familiar with the matter said
it was built by Campaign Nucleus, the digital services company
created by Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale.
Posts on the site repeated Trump's false claim that he lost the
2020 election because of widespread voter fraud and denigrated
fellow Republicans who have been critical of him like Senator
Mitt Romney and Representative Liz Cheney.
Twitter Inc and Facebook have both removed content posted from
other accounts that they said tried to circumvent their bans on
Trump.
A Twitter spokesman said sharing content from the website would
be permitted as long as the material did not otherwise break
Twitter's rules, but that attempts to circumvent a suspension
would not be permitted - for example, imitating a suspended
account to try to replace it.
He said Twitter would look out for any such cases.
Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment on
how it would treat posts shared from the new space.
Twitter, which Trump used heavily and where he had 88 million
followers, has said its ban on him is permanent, even if he runs
for office again. Alphabet Inc's YouTube has said it will
restore Trump's channel when it decides the risk of violence has
decreased.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Culliford; Additional reporting by Steve
Holland in Washington; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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