San Francisco sues Trump Media for selling early access to Trump posts

<figure> <img alt="President Trump Attends Congressional Medal Of Honor Society Reception" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/13102391/1032340378.jpg.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">San Francisco <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28671777-truth-social-2026-09-21-complaint/">is suing</a> the Trump Media &amp; Technology Group, the parent company behind Truth Social, for <a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/967020/trump-truth-social-api-wall-street-traders">selling early access</a> to President Donald Trump's posts on the social media site. The lawsuit, filed today in California state court, alleges that the Truth API feed is a "corrupt business scheme" that violates both California's Unfair Competition Law and federal ethics and anti-corruption laws that prohibit insider trading.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">White House spokesperson Davis Ingle <a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/994072/white-house-truth-social-popular-powerful">recently called</a> Truth Social the "most powerful and popular social media platform in the world." While the latter part of that statement is objectively untrue based on any credible e …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/998914/trump-truth-social-api-lawsuit-san-francisco">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>