On Thursday evening I went to the social media platform Truth Social to see what Donald Trump thought of President Biden’s divisive State of the Union Address. I found a blank page.
As it turns out, Truth wasn’t the only website to go down during this diatribe. Many government and media sites were affected, according to reports. The cause of the problem has not yet been determined.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency or as it is known in the industry, FEMA, was also affected.
DHS Secret Service and other agencies were also involved.
Users of Truth Social complained about not being able to log in or see new posts.
It appears that Donald Trump’s Truth Platform on social media was down during the State of the Union Address and Joe Biden’s Speech.
The chart by Down Detector indicates that MAGA supporters began experiencing outages around 9 pm tonight. Truth Social had been running well all day. Users began complaining on the site. Users reported different issues with the app.
“Truth won’t let me follow…” It didn’t help to clear my cache and browsing history. Some users complained they could only see “old posts and ads” while others claimed the app wouldn’t load at all.
There are many theories about what happened.
One user offered two different theories on why the app was down. He explained that the first could be because of the overwhelming engagement from Trump supporters throughout the country tonight. Second, a hacker may have used a distributed denial-of-service(DDOS) as part of a cyberattack to disrupt the app.
Chris Martin, a user on DownDetector.com said: “I believe it’s either a DDOS, or too much Love.” The tech issues come only two days after the former President beat former UN ambassador Nikki Haley in a Super Tuesday contest.
On Thursday morning, Trump announced that he would fact-check Biden’s remarks live.
In an announcement made on Wednesday, Trump stated: “I am pleased to inform you that tomorrow night we will be doing a Live, Play by Play of Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address.” “I’ll quickly correct any incorrect statements, especially those that pertain to border security, and his weaponization by the DOJ, FBI, A.G.s, and District Attorneys to go after his opponent, ME.” “This has never happened before in this Country before!”
It’ll be interesting to see if there is ever an explanation for these outages.
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