Truth Social Goes Down As Trump Fact Checks Biden In Real-Time

As President Trump was fact-checking Biden live on Truth Social, the site mysteriously went down.

Many users who were eager to see what Trump had to say about Biden’s State of the Union address  in real-time were disappointed about the outage.

Truth Social was down on both the web and on the app but it wasn’t a complete outage because Trump still maaged to send off his posts despite most users being unable to access the site.

Take a look:

Truth Social has gone down ahead of Biden's State of the Union speech.

President Trump is (attempting) to post live responses to Biden's speech. pic.twitter.com/op9x9nZxDv

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 8, 2024

🚨 BREAKING: TRUTH SOCIAL IS DOWN

This comes as Trump was live posting about Biden's State of the Union pic.twitter.com/kQ9JknwMLc

— InsidersHut (@InsidersHut) March 8, 2024

Per The US Mirror:

Donald Trump’s Truth social media platform appears to be down amid outages during Joe Biden State of the Union address.

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According to a chart crafted by Down Detector, MAGA supporters began to experience outages around 9 pm tonight. Truth Social appeared to be running smoothly throughout the day. Users began complaining on the website, each sharing a different problem they encountered with the app tonight.

“Truth won’t allow me to follow. This is an ongoing issue that happens almost every 2 weeks and the service desk never responds to my ticket. I tried clearing my browsing history and cache but that doesn’t work.” Some users also complained about seeing only “old posts and ads” while some said the app wouldn’t load for them at all.

Another user shared his two theories as to why the app has gone down. The first, he explained, could be due to the overwhelming engagement tonight from Trump supporters across the nation. The second, a hacker could have performed a distributed denial of service(DDOS) in a cyber attack aimed to disrupt activity on the app.

“Too much love or a DDOS attack is my guess,” the user who goes by Chris Martin on DownDetector.com. The tech issues come two days after the former president trounced former UN ambassador Nikki Haley in the Super Tuesday contest this week, ultimately edging her out of the race.

Truth Social is down while Trump is supposed to be doing his “fact checking” rebuttals. pic.twitter.com/iLLAukyyyb

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 8, 2024

Truth Social reportedly goes down for many just before the start of the State of the Union.

Trump was supposed to do live commentary on the State of the Union.

Coincidence? pic.twitter.com/7TpM51FtdT

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) March 8, 2024