Trump Media CEO defends selling faster access to president's Truth Social posts, says more have signed up

Cnbc · Aug 24, 2026 · 160 words · By Kevin Breuninger

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Trump Media & Technology Group interim CEO Kevin McGurn on Monday defended his company offering faster access to President Donald Trump's Truth Social posts, and said more customers have signed up for the pricey and controversial service.

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"We're getting into the mid-teens now, and we're climbing," McGurn told CNBC's "Squawk Box" when asked if more companies had started paying for the service dubbed Truth API, which costs up to $100,000 per month.

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That's an increase from two weeks earlier, when McGurn said on Trump Media's first-ever quarterly earnings call that "more than 10" customer agreements had been signed.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “more than 10 customer agreements had been signed”

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Multiple web search results confirm that during TMTG's first quarterly earnings call, Kevin McGurn stated that more than 10 customer agreements had been signed.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a timeline of the second presidency of Donald Trump during the third quarter of 2026, from July 1, 2026, to September 30, 2026. To navigate between quarters, see timeline of the Donal…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Steve Huffman (born November 12, 1983), also known by his Reddit username spez ( ), is an American web developer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, which is the seventh most-vis…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Truth Social is an American alt-tech social media platform owned by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), an American company majority-owned by US president Donald Trump. It has been called a "Twitte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social

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Claim 2: “Trump is a top shareholder in TMTG, with his stake being held in a revocable trust.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists entirely of irrelevant adult content search results. No factual information regarding Trump's shareholding structure or revocable trusts in TMTG was provided in the evidence.

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Claim 3: “We're getting into the mid-teens now, and we're climbing”

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Web search results explicitly quote interim CEO Kevin McGurn stating that the number of paying customers for the Truth API service has grown into the 'mid-teens'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) is an American non-profit organization founded in 2012 to fund and support free speech and freedom of the press. The organization originally managed crowd-funding…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In computerized business management, single version of the truth (SVOT), is a technical concept describing the data warehousing ideal of having either a single centralised database, or at least a dist…
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Claim 4: “The service went live on Aug. 1.”

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Al Jazeera and LinkedIn reports both reference the August 1 date for the Truth API service launch/availability.

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web search NEUTRAL — The service is expected to launch on August 1. Disclaimer: This post is for informational purposes only and is based on publicly available reports.Trump Media Group is launching "Truth API", a product…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/techmatterspk_truthsocial-tru…

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web search NEUTRAL — "Truth API," the new application programming interface, is designed to give firms "a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths," interim CEO Kevin McGurn said in a r…
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/01/trump-medias-new-data-servic…

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web search NEUTRAL — The complaint, filed by the Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, challenges Truth API, a feed from Trump Media & Technology Group that charges up to $100,000 a month for early access to …
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-08-13/Trump-sued-over-profou…

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Claim 5: “Truth API, which costs up to $100,000 per month”

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Two independent cross-references (The Guardian and NBC Washington) both report that the Truth API service charges between $60,000 and $100,000 per month.

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Claim 6: “more customers have signed up for the pricey and controversial service”

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Multiple web search results confirm that the number of customers for the Truth API has grown, specifically moving from 'more than 10' to the 'mid-teens'.

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Claim 7: “Trump Media & Technology Group interim CEO Kevin McGurn on Monday defended his company offering faster access to President Donald Trump's Truth Social posts”

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Multiple independent sources, including Al Jazeera and several web search results, confirm that Kevin McGurn is the interim CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Trump's second presidency has faced unprecedented conflicts of interest, self-enrichment, and allegations of corruption unrivaled in American history from historians, legal experts, and federal judges…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Fox News Channel (FNC), often referred to as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City. Owned by the F…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (TMTG) is an American media and technology company headquartered in Sarasota, Florida. It runs the Truth Social social-media platform and is majority-owned by the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Media_&_Technology_Group

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