India, Aug. 12 -- President Donald Trump has been sued over a new subscription service that charges up to $100,000 a month for faster access to posts on his Truth Social account, with plaintiffs alleging that the arrangement allows the president to profit from government information.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation against Trump, two of his aides and the Executive Office of the President. It targets Truth API, a paid data feed launched by Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind Truth Social.
The service provides subscribers with posts from the platform's 10 most prominent accounts milliseconds before they become broad...