Trump Media set 1 August as the day its paid Truth Social feed reaches institutional customers, and a letter from two senators asks the SEC to investigate it
Trump Media and Technology Group announced Truth API on 16 July, in a press release that names no price.
It names a date. The company said it anticipated the service being available to institutional customers beginning 1 August 2026, which is today, and that customers had signed up ahead of the launch with more being onboarded.
What the company says it sells
The release describes a business-to-business data feed carrying licensed, real-time access to posts from the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts. It says delivery uses industry-standard methods, reaches customers in milliseconds, is expected to run continuously, and includes a historical archive of posts going back to 2022. The intended buyer is named plainly: high-frequency and algorithmic trading firms that want a low-latency, machine-readable feed instead of watching the site by hand.
Kevin McGurn, the company's Interim Chief Executive Officer, is quoted in the release saying that markets already move on Truth Social posts, and describing the product as a way to monetise proprietary assets through a high-margin, recurring revenue stream.
No subscription price appears in the document.
What the senators asked for
Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee, and Senator Adam B. Schiff wrote to Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins on 28 July. The letter asks the Commission to immediately open an investigation into whether the arrangement violates applicable securities laws, and it asks for answers before the 1 August release date.
Three numbered questions follow. The first asks for the Commission's analysis of the service under the securities laws, including those on insider trading and market manipulation. The second asks for any earlier analysis staff have already done. The third asks what the Commission plans to do about the early release of information from the highest levels of government to selected firms, and breaks that into enforcement mechanisms, protocols to keep any investigation of top Truth Social accounts insulated from political leadership, and the tools available to retail investors.
The letter puts the president's stake in the company at 41 percent. It gives the subscription range as $60,000 to $100,000 a month, and footnotes that figure to news reporting rather than to the company.
The response, and what is not established
Reporting by Bobby Allyn at NPR carries the company's answer. Shannon Devine, a spokeswoman for Trump Media and Technology Group, said Truth API offers customers the fastest way to ingest publicly available Truth Social data, and rejected the insider trading characterisation on the ground that the data is public. Devine also dismissed the senators' letter as an effort to pressure businesses into boycotting a publicly traded company. NPR reports that the Commission declined to comment, and quotes Renée Jones, a Boston College professor and former Commission official, saying the paid offering appears to run afoul of insider trading laws.
Nothing here establishes that any law has been broken. A letter from two members of the minority is a request, not a finding, and the Commission has not said whether it will act on it. The company denies the characterisation. Both documents are linked above so the wording can be checked rather than taken on trust.
Where we read it: Bobby Allyn at NPR. Read their story.