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Liz Truss’s social media platform might work

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Former UK PM Liz Truss has announced she will launch her own free speech-focused social media site.

We are seeing a changing social media landscape where users are seeking platforms promising the opposite kind of audience social media has traditionally sought to have: niche, dedicated markets.

Sites like BlueSky and Rumble are succeeding by offering something explicitly narrow: a place where getting to exist in a small political bubble is the USP.

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informal

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English

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not hateful

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