Truth Social debuts in the Google Play Store | TechCrunch

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The app became available on Android shortly after and is now live in the Play Store, extending its reach to Google's mobile operating system ... Thoughit’sbeenavailablefortheiPhoneformonths,TruthSocialisnowlistedinGoogle’sappmarketplaceforthefirsttime. AxiosfirstreportedWednesdaythatTruthSocial,formerPresidentTrump’ssocialnetwork,clearedthenecessaryhurdlestogetapprovalfromGoogle.TheappbecameavailableonAndroidshortlyafterandisnowliveinthePlayStore,extendingitsreachtoGoogle’smobileoperatingsystem. AxiosreportedbackinAugustthatGoogleoptedtoblockTruthSocialfromthePlayStoreafteritdiscoveredanumberofpoststhatbrokeitsrules,includingcontentcontainingphysicalthreatsandincitementstoviolence.TruthSocialwasneverformallybannedfromthePlayStore,thoughitsapprovalwasoniceuntilsufficientchangesweremade. UnlikeoniOS,thereareotherdistributionoptionsavailableforAndroidappsthatdon’tgetformalapprovalfromGoogle.GoogletoleratessideloadingappsthroughotheravenuesandTruthSocialrecentlyofferedtheappasadirectdownload—thesamestrategythatfellow“freespeech”appParlerpreviouslyemployedtocircumventasimilarsituation. GoogletoldAxiosthatTruthSocialagreedtoenforceitspoliciesagainstsomeformsofcontent,includingpoststhatinciteviolence,inordertogetapproved.It’snotimmediatelyclearhowtheappwillhandlehatespeech—unlikethemainstreamsocialnetworksitseekstosupplant,TruthSocialdoesn’thaverulesagainsthate —butGoogle’srulesforuser-generatedcontentexplicitlyforbidcontentthatinciteshatred. GoogleblocksTruthSocialfromthePlayStore—WillApplebenext?

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