Trump’s new Truth Social plan: pay me $100K

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  NPR.

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  On the 1st of August, you'll be able to pay to access

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  top posts on Truth Social milliseconds before they hit the website.

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  Truth Social is, of course, the social media company that President Trump owns a substantial stake in.

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  It's where he often posts AI-generated memes and remonstrations of colleagues he thinks are disloyal.

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  But there's also a lot of information that affects us all and moves markets.

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  Critical policy announcements like new tariffs or what the U.S.

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  Is doing next in the Iran war.

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  So if you could get that information a tiny bit faster than everybody else, you could make a lot of money.

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  In the fast-paced world of modern markets, milliseconds matter.

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  Maybe you set up a trading bot to buy oil futures the fraction of the second

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  that the president announces more attacks on Iran.

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  Maybe it buys shares in a company that the president talks up.

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  And the price for this special access could be up to $100,000.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong.

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  And I'm Darian Woods.

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  Today on the show, is selling faster access to truth social corruption?

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  Is it legal?

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  And is corruption bad for economic growth?

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