In February 2025, posts were encouraged that in response to criticism of the US president against Vladimir Zelensky, the Ukrainian authorities limited access to the Truth Social social network. We checked how reliable such messages are.
Truth Social - social network, created Donald Trump and earned February 21, 2022. Three years later, on February 20, 2025, messages about the blocking of this platform in Ukraine began to massively disperse. “The joke of the day: Trump's social network Truth Social is blocked in Ukraine,” wrote the Telegram channel “Live broadcast"(764,000 views at the time of writing this analysis). TV presenter channel Vladimir Solovyov (212,000 views) specified that this was done on behalf of the “worthless [President of Ukraine Vladimir] Zelensky”, whom Trump in his post in Truth Social on the eve He called it "Dictator without elections." Entrepreneur and founder of "Constantinople" Konstantin Malofeev (338,000 views) in his channel added that there was no official announcement of the ban on the social network in Ukraine, but called the blocking of the “banal personal revenge” of Zelensky in response to Trump's words. About the same opinion was expressed by the head of the Commission of the Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation on Information Policy Alexey Pushkov (11,000 views) and TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko (104,000), and showman Andrey Bocharov (100,000) commented on the news like this (spelling is preserved): "Freedom of speech in the decoration."
According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis, more than 450 similar Russian -speaking posts appeared in Telegram, and the total of about 4.5 million views. The fact that the social network Truth Social was blocked in Ukraine, wrote channels "Barrel of black caviar"(145,000 views),"Banks, money, two offshores"(130,000),"The economist"(129,000),"Sheikh Tamir"(118 000),"The first folk"(102 000),"Tsargrad-TV"(64,000) and others. Among the media reported"RIA Novosti","Arguments and facts","News" URA.RU, Lenta.ru, "Gazeta.ru" Eadaily, "Reginum","Business Online"And others. Similar posts Get it Millions of views in the English -language segment of social networks and In other languages. Including about this He wrote Anglo -speaking RT account in the social network X.
Most publications on the site blocking TruthSocial.com In Ukraine, a screenshot is given, which show the social network logo and English -language message: "At the moment, Truth Social is not available in your territory." As it was convinced “verified”, it really cannot go to the social network from the Ukrainian IP addresses, and the user is shown the specified warning. However, the same thing happens if you try to do it in Russia. Information that the service is not available in Moscow, Shown And in the screenshot in the Solovyov post mentioned above, but in his text the TV presenter does not mention this fact.
The presence of a logo, together with the report on the inaccessibility of the social network, indicates that not at all responsible Ukrainian departments limited its work, but Truth Social itself. The code of this page shows that there Used service Pages - This is a platform for the developers of sites from the company Cloudflarewhich controls the global network of servers and provides various services for the protection and acceleration of web resources. Most likely, it is precisely because of the settings of the CloudFlare account, tied to the address of the Trump social network, when the server returns an error of 403 (access to the requested resource is prohibited), users with Ukrainian IP addresses see a static page, as in the above screenshot. If the authorities were banned, instead of it, the user would show the standard error warning for his browser.
How write The factor from the Open project, posts that Truth Social does not work in Ukraine, Internet users published earlier. For example, tweets about a similar error with access appeared in February 2024 And November 2022 years. It is significant that in some cases it was said about the bath of Ukrainian IP addresses from the platform.
In March 2024, the Ukrainian edition "Detector Media" released An article about how Russian propaganda is distributed in Truth Social. In particular, the authors described their experience on registration on the platform:
“The official list of countries where the social network operates includes the USA, Canada, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Turkey and Australia. For this study, we registered a profile in this social network. Although it is inaccessible in the Polish Google Play, the application can be downloaded in Ark-format or from the App Store. This network works without VPN, but the registration process is complex. To create the profile, it is necessary to specify the email address, however, the social network does not accept all the domains - in particular, it was not possible to use the email addresses of the UKR.NET, as well as temporary addresses like Proton Mail. After entering the Gmail address, a verification code comes to it, then the social network will ask you to enter the mobile phone number. She does not register users with Ukrainian numbers. There is no Poland in the list of countries where the platform works, but she accepted the Polish number and, using the Polish VPN, gave the appropriate code from SMS messages. ”
February 20, 2025, official representative of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine Georgy Tikhiy Refuted Viral publications on the block Truth Social. He said:
“We saw reports that access to the Truth Social social network was blocked in Ukraine. These messages are not true. Ukraine did not block and could not block access, because, unfortunately, the Truth Social social network has never been available to users in Ukraine. According to public information, Truth Social only works in a number of countries (USA, Canada, Brazil, Australia and some others), and Ukraine is not included in this list. We will be grateful if Truth Social adds Ukraine to the number of its permitted regions. ”
AFP, in turn, requested a comment by Trump Media & Technology Group, which runs the social network of the US president. “Messages that Truth Social is blocked in Ukraine is false. Truth Social has never been available in Ukraine, ” - declared Representative of the company.
It is noteworthy that some Russian resources, including the agency "RIA Novosti"And Telegram channel Ruslan Ostashko, in their publications on the blocking of Truth Social in Ukraine, they referred to the English-language Telegram channel Sputnik International. However, there is an appropriate entry already Inaccessible, but There is Another, where it says: “Ukraine, you are dismissed! Despite the reports that Zelensky banned Trump's social network in Ukraine, the truth is that ... Truth Social has never been available in Ukraine. SADLY!" Moreover, the site "Business Online"In his note on the lock, he referred to this post from Sputnik International - probably the editors of this publication did not notice that one of the proposals in the English -language text was hidden.
Thus, although the Truth Social social network does not really work in Ukraine, the authorities of this country did not block it. According to the representative of the company, which runs the platform, the Trump social network has never been available in Ukraine.
Photo on the cover: Screenshot TruthSocial.com / goodfon.ru / collage "Checked"
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