Donald Trump Jr. wants to be the next tech billionaire. And his plan to do just that isnt by attempting to become the next Google or Apple, or even the next Facebook or Twitteras his father has so desperately wanted with TRUTH Social (where he has posted exactly once). Nope, Junior wants to become the next Matt Drudge?
Unless you watched Impeachment, the latest season of American Crime Story, youre probably thinking: Wait, who is Matt Drudge again? Hes basically a blogger whose name became front-page news in the 1990s for breaking the news that Bill Clinton had engaged in a scandalous affair with a White House intern. Some additional scoops followed, but Drudges relevance in todays 24/7 news and social media-led world is waning, and Juniors hoping to swoop in and scavenge whats leftover.
As Axios reports, his plan is to create a news aggregation app that mobile users in particular can keep handy to keep up with whats happening in the news (or at least what they determine to be news). Called MxM News (for Minute-by-Minute), Axios writes that the company is looking to disrupt the mobile news space similar to how Drudge disrupted web publishing and Fox News disrupted cable television in the 1990s.
Wowthose are two terrible outlets to want to emulate, but to each his own.
Whether or not Junior fails, its hard to imagine that MxM News could be as abject a failure as TRUTH Social, the long-threatened social media network that Trump the Elder created and has attempted to launch on a few different occasions now, with each attempt seemingly more disastrous than the time before. Its gotten so bad that not even the former president, who was permanently banned from Twitter more than a year ago over his role in the January 6th attacks on the Capitol, isnt even using his own site anymore. Add TRUTH Social the very, very long list of failed Trump businessesand maybe keep a space open for MxM News while youre at it, just in case.
(Via Axios)
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