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title: "Google Play Barred the Trump’s Truth Social Platform"  
description: "From Google Play the social media platform of the Former U.S. President Donald Trump's social media platform was barred."  
author: "Siddhi Shaw"  
published: 2022-08-31  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/news/1944/google-play-barred-the-trump-s-truth-social-platform  
category: "google"  
tags: ["google", "social media", "google play"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Google Play Barred the Trump’s Truth Social Platform

From **Google Play** the social [media platform](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156104/what-are-the-social-media-platform-used-for-seo) of the **Former U.S. President [Donald Trump](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1464/parler-launched-deepredsea-nft-site-displays-donald-trump-themed-virtual-collections)'s** [social media](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13056/how-to-leverage-social-media-to-attract-lots-of-blog-traffic) platform was barred. **Google** mentions that the platform actually violates its policies on prohibiting content like physical threats and incitement to violence. Such move had made it troublesome for users with **Android** phones to download the app.

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HIGHLIGHTS
On prohibiting content like threats, the platform would violate its policies
In February the Truth Social was launched on only Apple's App Store The platform was founded by Mr Trump, where he chooses to post on social media
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The **CEO of Truth Social Devin Nunes** has previously called Google as a '**monopoly**.' Well, Truth Social was launched on **Apple's App Store** in **February** but the roll-out was beset by issues.

However, the app was not available on Google Play, wherever the majority of apps were downloaded on Android phones.

Truth Social's CEO has mentioned last week that the decision on whether the app would be available was '**up to the Google Play Store**'. However, Google has mentioned that it was down to **Truth Social** to fits its rules.

One of the Google spokesperson has mentioned that “**On August 19 we tend to notify Truth Social about many violations of normal policies**.”The person added that '**having effective systems for moderating user-[generated content](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/158461/how-can-you-implement-cache-control-for-dynamically-generated-content) was a condition of our terms of service for any app in order to travel on Google Play**.'

Truth Social was commonly defined as a '**[free speech](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/35809/which-amendment-guarantees-the-right-to-free-speech)**' platform.

However, for the app to be downloadable on majority of the world's phones it has to get approved by **Apple** and **Google**. Well, far from Truth Social being an area of unbound free speech, the platform indeed has several rules on what would and would not say.

The platform was founded by **Mr Trump**, and was where the [previous president](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43184/what-did-president-hoover-expand-more-than-any-previous-president) chooses to [post on social](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/106663/how-to-delete-a-post-on-social-networks) media. Mr Trump was prohibited from **Twitter** and **Facebook** after the last year's **U.S. Capitol riot**. After which the critics have argued that [Truth Social](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1196/donald-trump-s-new-media-venture-truth-social-app-launch-on-21st-february-2021) has a drawback with [misinformation](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/304586/the-role-of-advertisement-to-spread-misinformation) and hate speech.

Also Read: [Donald Trump’s Truth Social Application would be available in the Google Play store last May](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1612/donald-trump-s-truth-social-application-would-be-available-in-the-google-play-store-last-may)

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