Trump’s Truth Social forces new users to follow Tommy Robinson

Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform, his closely watched forum for public communication, forces new users to follow the far-Right activist Tommy Robinson. Accounts that register to the US president’s social media app, which he launched in 2022 after being banned from Facebook and Twitter, are automatically made to follow a list of around 100 users. It includes Mr Trump, as well as his son Donald Trump Jr, most of the president’s cabinet, and several controversial figures including Robinson. The British hard-Right agitator, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has courted the Trump administration and was hosted by the US state...