New documents reveal Donald Trump’s social media platform is a hotbed of online fraud, with swindlers conning users out of enormous sums of money.
  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    It’s not just his platform. Watch the dime-store networks that cover him. OANN, Real America, or whatever the fuck they’re called. They’ll show footage of Trump rallies right next to ads for Ivermectin, clearly obvious crypto scams, and ads you’d expect to see on some shady porn or torrent site.

    Which isn’t a surprise. Trump has corralled the dumb and gullible and made it nice and easy for scammers to target en masse.

  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 months ago

    I wonder what, if anything, will by done about this by those in charge of the app.

    Depending on how many “users” are actually scammers, a deletion of such accounts would lead to a decreased user count. Considering Dementia Don’s obsession with bigly numbers, such an action would probably upset him. Besides, as other social media sites have proven, deleting scammer accounts without doing anything to deter them would simply become a game of whack-a-mole.

    Highlighting tips to avoid scammers is what a lot of companies would do. But this is “Truth Social.” Informing their users in order to protect them from scams would give away their own game. (Or do nothing, since so many of these users are already too gullible to function.)

    Even before any of that, taking action requires admitting that they have a problem, which doesn’t fit into the modern GOP handbook.

    • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Depending on how many “users” are actually scammers, a deletion of such accounts would lead to a decreased user count.

      Just include suspended accounts when publishing user counts. Like how Trump leaves his shoes on when he gets measured for a physical so people will think he’s actually 6’3".

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
    57·
    3 months ago

    Truth Social’s seemingly target-rich environment is also home to romantic relationship scams, including one 72-year-old man reporting that, after chatting with a “beautiful” woman on the app, he was fleeced out of $21,000. “I haven’t told my wife about this blunder. She still doesn’t know about it,” his complaint read.

    Yikes, votes to take away your wife’s Healthcare then cheat on her with a scammer you met on truth social to the toon of $21k. Chef kiss.

    • jaybone@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      Yeah I imagine it’s like an MLM / pyramid scheme. It all trickles up. And the actual “reportable” fraud occurs at a very low level that the Trump campaign cannot easily be connected to.

  • huquad@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    To be fair, this is all social media these days. Especially the ads. I use an adblock (ofc), but some of my friends and family who don’t are constantly getting baited.