Fake news alert! Donald Trump’s new social media app is a triumph | Arwa Mahdawi

The former president's media venture, Truth Social has got off to a rocky start - with technical problems and potential legal issues to boot

Truth hurts, everyone knows that. Nevertheless, I wasn't expecting my experience with Truth Social, Donald Trump's new social media venture, to be quite so painful. After months of fanfare, the former president's new app, which is essentially a Twitter clone, was opened to the US public on Sunday night. Obviously, I signed up straight away - or at least I tried to.

I spent 20 frustrating minutes attempting to create a new account and getting error message after error message. Eventually, I managed to sign up with the username @stormyd, only to be told that I had been put on a waiting list due to massive demand". I was number 194,276 in line, apparently. Which, I'm sure, is a very precise number and not something they just pulled out of the air.