Trump sued over $100K-a-month Truth Social API access sales

Nonprofit news organizations filed a lawsuit against President Trump over Truth Social's "Truth API" program, which sells real-time access to posts from Trump and other top users of the social network. The plaintiffs argue Trump is profiting by selling preferential access to government information.

Trump's company began charging customers up to $100,000 per month for early access to posts that can immediately impact financial markets. The first buyers are mostly high-frequency trading firms that could benefit from receiving official government news milliseconds ahead of others.

The lawsuit calls the scheme "profoundly corrupt," saying the president stands to gain financially by giving "market-moving" government information to those willing and able to pay his personal company. Truth Social also plans to restrict web scraping tools and make its API the only way to access deleted or edited posts.

The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation filed the suit, arguing Trump is violating the US Constitution by preventing equal access to government announcements. Seth Stern, the foundation's chief of advocacy, said a president selling priority access to news he generates for a private company he controls is "so blatantly corrupt and unconstitutional" that it would have been hard to fathom just a few years ago.