San Francisco Sues Trump's Truth Social Over Paid Subscription Service
San Francisco's City Attorney, David Chiu, has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court against Trump's social media platform, Truth Social. The lawsuit seeks to block Truth Social from offering a paid subscription service, 'Truth API,' which provides customers who pay $100,000 per month with priority access to posts from President Trump and other high-level officials before they are made available to the general public. The city attorney argues that this service aids and abets President Trump's violations of federal ethics and anti-corruption laws, and also infringes upon other federal laws designed to prevent insider trading. The lawsuit contends that monetizing preferential access to information derived from government service, while that information is withheld from the public, violates public trust and California's Unfair Competition Law, which prohibits unlawful and unfair business practices. This legal action follows a similar lawsuit filed last week in federal court by two non-profit organiz...