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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adam Gabbatt

Inside the unhinged midterm election conspiracy theories on Truth Social

Image of Donald Trump overlaid on Truth Social in the app store on a phone.
The site was formed as Trump’s alternative to Twitter after he was banned from the platform. Photograph: Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

Ballot boxes being stuffed. “BlueAnon”. Men in underpants. Every Democratic candidate: a “complete weirdo psychopath”.

To dive into Truth Social, Donald Trump’s Twitter-but-for-conspiracy-theorists social media platform, is to enter a world where all of the above are real topics of debate, breathlessly discussed by Trump-backing Republicans and anonymous rightwing provocateurs.

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