Trolls Push #DeSantis2024 To Top Of Trump Platform

Vice News reports:

In the space of a couple of hours, and with the help of a single TikTok video, a group of three friends were able to hijack Truth Social and get the hashtag #DeSantis2024 to the top of the trending section on the site owned by former President Donald Trump. Then, the social network went offline. With Trump’s possible indictment and arrest looming, Ari Cagan, Adam Faze, and Peter McIndoe, who created the viral Birds Aren’t Real movement, turned to Truth Social.

“We wanted to make something trend that would really piss off Trump,” Cagan added. “We noticed that he was ‘truthing’ a lot about DeSantis. If DeSantis started trending on his own platform, it would annoy him to no end.” Within hours, the #DeSantis2024 hashtag appeared on the Truth Social trending pane. By 4 pm on Tuesday afternoon it was at the top of the trending section, overtaking pro-Trump hashtags like #PrayforTrump, Trump2024 and #IStandWithTrump.

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Truth Social is such a wasteland of grifters, MAGA heads, QAnon, & Donald Trump, that the guy behind @birdsarentreal managed to get #DeSantis2024 trending in the space of a few hours.

Then Truth Social immediately replaced it with #Trump2024https://t.co/ECAz3mpAsK

— David Gilbert (@daithaigilbert) March 23, 2023