NEW: Google has approved Donald Trump’s Twitter-like social media app Truth Social for distribution in the Google Play Store, Axios has learned.
: Nearly half of U.S. smartphone users rely on Google’s Android operating system, and the Google Play Store is the primary way Android users can access – and download – apps to their phones.: Google and Truth Social have been in touch for months about the approval status for Truth Social.that they first notified Truth Social about several violations of standard policies in their app submission that barred it from approval on August 19.
Truth Social has been working to update its policies in the time since, which is what has ultimately led to its approval in the app store.: All apps on Google Play that feature user-generated content are required to have robust content moderation policies that prevent not just illegal content, but content that incites violence or is considered hate speech.
They most also provide an in-app system for users to report violative content and must be willing to enforce its content moderation standards. As a part of the agreement to be allowed in the Google Play Store, Truth Social had to commit to enforcing its own website“Apps may be distributed on Google Play provided they comply with our developer guidelines, including the requirement to effectively moderate user-generated content and remove objectionable posts such as those that incite violence,” a Google spokesperson noted.
In the past few weeks it made a side-loaded version of the app available to Android users for download from its website.
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