Posted on 05/30/2025 8:23:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Zuckerberg, Musk, Trump… Truss? Cockburn was surprised to hear from across the Pond that Liz Truss – who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom for just 49 days – had plans to set up a social media site. “What I am doing is establishing a new free speech network, which will be uncensored and uncancellable, to actually talk about the issues people don’t want to talk about,” the former PM said at a conference in England last month.
The move would see Truss compete with X, Parler, Gettr, Gab and, yes, Truth Social, Trump’s social media app. How will she pull it off? With some American assistance, it seems. Cockburn understands Truss’s network is set to be part of the media conglomerate John Solomon and Mark Meckler are working to establish. Perhaps parading around the Trump inauguration in a MAGA hat actually paid off. Truss did not respond to a request for comment.
“Liz Truss is taken as seriously in America as she was in Britain,” one MAGA insider with knowledge of both countries told Cockburn. “All we know about her is she shows up at every conference trying to sell some book. Last time she was in a room of MAGA people, everyone thought she was there to take coffee orders.”
Solomon is the founder of JustTheNews – and SEC records list Solomon’s firm TAME as a vendor for digital ad sales on Truth Social. Solomon is also in the good graces of President Trump, who has regularly shared Solomon’s articles on the app. Meckler is one of the co-founders of the Tea Party movement and also served as interim CEO of Parler in 2021.
Earlier this month, the American Thinker published a blog saying that “a well-financed effort is underway to acquire several major conservative outlets, including Human Events, the Post Millennial and the Daily Caller, to roll them up under a single owner.” The site’s managing editor Andrea Widburg names Solomon as being behind the effort – and says that while she has “no beef” with Solomon, he is “a man with a vision that he pursues relentlessly, but no matter how much money or authority he gets, he never fulfills that vision.” The same website published a rebuttal from Solomon this week, in which he contests several of Widburg’s characterizations of him and his prospective donors. He renews his “request for a retraction” (how free speech-y!). Yet Solomon also refers to “the company Mark Meckler and I am seeking to build” and does not push back on the description of the proposed roll-up. Human Events and the Post Millennial already share ownership.
Given how initial media reports branded the former PM’s planned site “Truss Social,” Cockburn finds it intriguing that someone with a role at Trump’s site is set to be involved. How many lessons will Solomon’s new venture take from his previous experience with the President’s app?
Cockburn reached out to Solomon, Truth Social and the approached outlets for comment – and will update you if he hears back…
I’ll bef $500 her site gets investigated within a year of launch.
Another $500 her site censors a post within 90 days.
Another $250 her site gets fined by the EU within 2 years.
$100 she gets arrested within 18 months.
$1000 she won’t get 1 million active users in 12 months.
$2000 the site closes within 3 years of launch.
That's quite a distinction!
Regards,
Well, they say imitation is the sincerest for of flattery.
She is doomed to failure, for the same reason she failed as PM. She lacks charisma and a personality forceful enough to push through and achieve her goals. The British establishment was running rings around her.
She better be careful free speech in the UK can get you arrested for saying the wrong thing about the wrong ethnic group. Just look at the British response when Pakistan is were grooming teenage girls in public housing when the girl complained to the cops the girls were threatened with criminal sanctions for inciting racism while the sex exploitation continued.
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