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submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Former President Donald Trump hit the jackpot this spring when his social media company finally went public.

Even though Trump Media & Technology Group DJT generates very little revenue, investors are assigning an eye-popping valuation north of $9 billion to the company. Trump’s dominant stake in Trump Media is now valued at nearly $6 billion.

Yet new data shows its main product — the conservative-friendly social network Truth Social — remains a very tiny player in its industry, and it’s getting even smaller.

Truth Social’s average number of daily active US users on iOS and Android dropped by 19% year over year in April to about 113,000, according to data shared exclusively with CNN from Similarweb, a data intelligence company.

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[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 years ago

Why is it valued so high to investors if the company makes almost no revenue? 9 billion ? What the fuck?

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 years ago

Let's say you're an organization (or foreign actor) who wants to get as many no-strings-attached dollars into Trump's hands as possible. You can't do that through campaign donations because those are watched way too closely. You can't just cut him a check, because that looks suspicious too. What you can do however is buy stock in the company he mostly owns, and inflate the stock price as much as you want.

[-] ApostleO@startrek.website 43 points 2 years ago

Which explains why it was standard procedure for presidents to put their money in a blind trust. And why Trump didn't.

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