Speculation has started that Donald Trump’s Truth Social and Musk’s X will merge now that Trump won this year’s election.
Rumors have started circulating following President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory that billionaire Elon Musk may merge X, formerly Twitter, with Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social.
X has approximately 611 million active monthly users and is valued at around $9.4 billion. In recent weeks, Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), has surged past X Holdings, valued at $10 billion.
Following Trump’s victory in this year’s presidential election, in which he secured both the popular vote and more Electoral College votes than Vice President Kamala Harris, some have raised concerns about what a potential partnership between Musk, a vocal supporter of the president-elect, and Trump could look like.
During an interview appearance on CNN on Wednesday, Kara Swisher, a business and internet journalist, said, « I would suspect he would try to merge Truth Social » with X.
Newsweek has reached out to Trump’s campaign, TMTG andTesla’s communications team for comment from Musk on Friday.
Trump created Truth Social in early 2022 after he was banned from other social media platforms, notably Twitter, for violating its rules following the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot and « due to the risk of further incitement of violence.
