Engadget⁠39%

There's now an API for mainlining Trump's Truth Social posts ⁠77%

By Ian Carlos Campbell⁠26%

7/17/2026, 10:05:37 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Availability Heuristic, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 34.8% saturation with 101 hits. Analysis detected 753 faulty-reasoning hits from 290 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 69% and a BS Rank of ⁠77% (4,786 of 20,515 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 76.70% of the article peer group.

Trump Media and Technology Group, the company behind social media platform Truth Social, has announced it will sell access to Truth Social posts through a new API. 
When it becomes available on August 1, the new Truth API will give businesses "real-time access to posts from the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts" — a direct pipe from President Donald Trump's favorite social media site to anyone trying to make investments based on his posts. 
"Truth API uses familiar, industry-standard delivery methods to deliver Truth Social posts to our customers in milliseconds," Trump Media says. 
"It is expected to provide continuous 24/7 coverage and includes a historical archive of posts dating back to 2022." 
Other social media sites have offered free or paid access to their APIs in the past for building clients to view posts or other features. 
Twitter notably closed free access to its API in 2023, not long after it was purchased by Elon Musk. 
The difference here, as TMTG CEO Kevin McGurn notes, is that "markets already move on Truth Social posts." 
One likely reason for that is Truth Social's most popular user, President Trump. 
Besides being a majority shareholder in the platform's owner through his trust, Trump is also Truth Social's most followed user, with around 12.9 million followers as of July 2026. 
The President frequently announces major new policies and governmental actions through Truth Social before they trickle out through official channels. 
Trump Media expects offering unfettered access to posts to be "a meaningful, ongoing source of revenue for the company, creating lasting value for shareholders," including the President's family. 
If that doesn't work, there's always the nuclear fusion business Trump Media merged with last year. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 6.2%Ian Carlos Campbell: 2.7%Engadget: 3.0%Confirmation Bias6.2%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.9%Engadget: 1.4%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 22.8%Ian Carlos Campbell: 3.5%Engadget: 3.1%Availability Heuristic22.8%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.6%Engadget: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.1%Engadget: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.5%Engadget: 2.5%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 19.3%Ian Carlos Campbell: 5.9%Engadget: 5.9%Framing Effect19.3%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 1.0%Engadget: 1.1%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 8.6%Ian Carlos Campbell: 1.2%Engadget: 0.8%Status Quo Bias8.6%This article: 5.5%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.1%Engadget: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect5.5%This article: 16.2%Ian Carlos Campbell: 5.6%Engadget: 4.5%Optimism Bias16.2%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 2.1%Engadget: 2.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 7.5%Engadget: 7.0%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 9.7%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.6%Engadget: 1.7%Self-Serving Bias9.7%This article: 4.5%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.6%Engadget: 0.4%Fundamental Attribution Error4.5%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.2%Engadget: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.0%Engadget: 0.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.0%Engadget: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 10.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.8%Engadget: 1.9%Halo Effect10.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.0%Engadget: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.0%Engadget: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 6.6%Ian Carlos Campbell: 1.5%Engadget: 1.7%Recency Bias6.6%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.6%Engadget: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.1%Engadget: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.0%Engadget: 0.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 1.0%Engadget: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 13.1%Ian Carlos Campbell: 5.0%Engadget: 5.0%Appeal to Authority13.1%This article: 5.5%Ian Carlos Campbell: 1.7%Engadget: 1.2%False Dilemma5.5%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.3%Engadget: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.0%Engadget: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 8.6%Ian Carlos Campbell: 4.1%Engadget: 5.1%Hasty Generalization8.6%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 1.0%Engadget: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.5%Engadget: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 2.1%Engadget: 3.3%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 9.7%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.7%Engadget: 1.0%Begging the Question9.7%This article: 11.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 2.1%Engadget: 2.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)11.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.0%Engadget: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 1.1%Engadget: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.0%Engadget: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.0%Engadget: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 6.9%Ian Carlos Campbell: 1.2%Engadget: 2.4%Anecdotal6.9%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.0%Engadget: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 25.9%Ian Carlos Campbell: 2.6%Engadget: 2.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)25.9%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.0%Engadget: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.0%Engadget: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.2%Engadget: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 5.5%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.1%Engadget: 0.1%Special Pleading5.5%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.0%Engadget: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 3.0%Engadget: 2.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 1.6%Engadget: 1.2%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 29.3%Ian Carlos Campbell: 7.5%Engadget: 7.4%Biased Writer Voice29.3%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 1.0%Engadget: 1.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.3%Engadget: 0.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ian Carlos Campbell: 0.0%Engadget: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 34.8%Ian Carlos Campbell: 3.6%Engadget: 3.9%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…34.8%

290 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers29%attributed speech205writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 46 words • 100.0% coverageTrump Media and Technology Group • 20 words • 0.0% coverageTrump Media and Technology Group • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageKevin McGurn • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 29 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageTrump Media and Technology Group • 28 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverage
100%flagged-word coverage
67 attributed words79% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%22.5%45.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +6.2 ptsWriter: 35.6%Trump Media and Technology Group: 41.8%41.8%Biased Writer Voice-41.5 ptsWriter: 41.5%Trump Media and Technology Group: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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