Google keeps Trump’s Truth Social off its app store

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Google has not approved Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social for distribution in its Google Play Store because of content moderation concerns.

A Google spokesperson said on Tuesday: “On August 19, we notified Truth Social of several violations of standard policies in their current app submission and reiterated that having effective systems for moderating user-generated content is a condition of our terms of service for any app to go live on Google Play.”

This means Truth Social is not available on Android phones, or to 40% of the US market.

Truth Social first launched on the Apple App Store on 21 February.