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The mum or dad firm of Fact Social simply launched Fact API, a service that gives a “direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform’s most market-moving Truths,” based on Trump Media & Know-how Group interim CEO Kevin McGurn. Principally, a handful of Wall Avenue merchants are paying as a lot as $100,000 per 30 days to get entry to Donald Trump’s posts inside milliseconds, as my colleague Matt Stieb defined:
That will not sound like a six-figure product to a traditional particular person. However to high-frequency merchants shopping for and promoting on the fraction of a blink of a watch, it may very well be definitely worth the funding. Trump makes information on Fact Social. And now an organization he owns 41 % of is promoting that information to Wall Avenue so it may well act on it earlier than anybody else can. Excessive-frequency merchants want this information quick to have the ability to win a recreation the place the primary laptop to get the brand new information of their algorithm wins. On this planet of the HFT, “velocity turns into the tiebreaker,” says dealer Haim Bodek.
The president taking advantage of giving Wall Avenue companies early entry to his bulletins is clearly regarding. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff have already requested the the Securities and Trade Fee to research this “outrageous abuse of the President’s workplace for his private profit.”
However in case you’re nervous that the appalling monetization of Trump’s posts will alter the contents of the president’s feed, concern not: It’s nonetheless filled with breathtakingly delusional memes.
Fact API went reside on Saturday. You may suppose Trump would attempt to show the service’s worth by specializing in “market-moving Truths” for not less than a couple of days. And he did make some information on Fact Social over the weekend, from taunting Iran to arguing with Jeanine Pirro about Reflecting Pool vandalism. However these posts have been buried in a sea of self-aggrandizing AI slop.
Lowlights from Trump’s dozens of weird weekend posts embody a shot of him asserting his marketing campaign for an unlawful third time period after invading Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night time with a military of wine-chugging MAGA clones:
This picture of Trump forcibly kissing a crucifix:
A repost of that point Trump imagined strolling by means of Space 51 with a very nude, surprisingly jacked alien in handcuffs:
This shot of Trump main troops into battle throughout the American Revolution, regardless of his debilitating bone spurs:
A repost of Trump gazing adoringly at his youthful self. (To be clear, that is tailored from a photograph of Trump attending army college, not serving within the precise U.S. army):
A really regular picture of the president of the USA as Elvis Presley:
This submit during which Trump bragged about profitable one other golf match at his New Jersey golf course as a result of his pure “expertise” and complained he’s “given little or no time to follow,” regardless of {golfing} 125 out of the 561 days since his return to workplace:
And this shot of Trump scribbling on a map with the ghosts of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington:
Maybe there’s some solution to filter a lot of these posts out of the Fact API feed. If not, all these corporations are actually getting is an early peek into Trump’s AI-slop-fueled psyche. And what they’ve discovered to date is he’s jealous of Lincoln and Washington, he can’t cease fascinated by aliens, and he desperately needs to repost that picture of himself as Jesus. I may’ve advised them that, and my consulting charge is significantly lower than $100,000 per 30 days.
