Trump’s Truth Social Saw 550 Percent Increase in Downloads after FBI Raid

Truth Social, a social media platform owned by former President Donald Trump, saw a surge in downloads after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago residence on Aug. 8, according to reports.

Downloads of the Truth Social app skyrocketed by nearly 550 percent in the week after the FBI raid, Vice News reported on Aug. 19, citing data from Data AI, a company that provides analysis based on consumer and market data.

The app, made available on Apple’s App Store in February, was downloaded fewer than 20,000 times, with an average of about 2,500 downloads daily, in the week prior to the FBI raid.

However, during the week after the raid, the app was downloaded 107,500 times, with an average of about 13,400 daily.