The testing of Truth Social comes a year after Donald Trump was banned from Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet's YouTube. His new media and technology venture, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), has pledged to deliver an “engaging and censorship-free experience” on the app, which Chief Executive Devin Nunes has said will launch by the end of March.

The Human Rights Commission of New Zealand is urging people to dial down COVID-19 related hostility, abuse, and rage.

Musk sent the tweet on Wednesday just before midnight in California, and had deleted it by midday on Thursday, without explanation. He did respond to a request for comment.Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Inc, in late January tweeted support for the Canadian truckers, who have shut down roads and bridges, drawing international attention to their opposition to health policies pushed by Trudeau's government.

Heather Morgan, 31, a published Forbes writer and rapper, aka 'Crocodile of Wall Street,' and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein, a startup founder, were arrested for conspiring to launder $4.5 billion in Bitcoins stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex.