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Reuters identifies three customers paying for faster access to Trump posts

Reuters identifies Bloomberg, Susquehanna and Jump Trading as customers; companies decline comment; Trump Media disputes report; filings confirm service and customer agreements but not identities

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Source updated: Oct 29, 2026 · time not supplied · Event: 2026-10-28

Reuters reported that Bloomberg, Susquehanna International Group and Jump Trading subscribed to Trump Media's Truth API, a paid service that provides low-latency access to posts from influential Truth Social accounts including President Trump's. Reuters cited people with direct knowledge and said the purchases had not previously been reported. Bloomberg, Susquehanna and Jump declined to comment. Trump Media's own SEC exhibits confirm that the service is designed for high-frequency and algorithmic trading firms, delivers posts in milliseconds and had signed more than ten customer agreements by August, generally priced between $60,000 and $100,000 per month. The filings do not name the customers, so the three identities are reported claims rather than independently confirmed facts.

Response / context

Trump Media said Truth API is an industry-standard product with significant demand, said it protects customer confidentiality and called Reuters' anonymous-source reporting misleading and harmful to the company, its customers and shareholders. The company has separately described the feed as low-latency access to publicly available posts. White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Reuters that Trump and his family are not directly involved in portfolio investment decisions, but did not directly address allegations that the president was improperly using his office. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff asked the SEC in July to investigate whether the product violates securities laws; that request is an allegation and request for review, not an SEC finding. Reuters said the SEC declined to comment. A separate media-plaintiff lawsuit over access to official announcements remains pending; no ruling establishing that Truth API is unlawful was identified by the review time.

Dates and scope

Source publication: Oct 28, 2026 · 8:21 PM EDT · Source update: 2026-10-29

Event or conduct: 2026-10-28. Reuters published its report at 12:21 a.m. UTC October 29, or 8:21 p.m. EDT October 28, and identified previously undisclosed Truth API customers. Trump Media announced the service July 16 and launched it August 1. The Ledger reviewed Reuters, the company's July 16 SEC exhibit, its August 10 earnings exhibit and the senators' July 29 letter at 1:07 p.m. EDT October 29. The service launch, reported customer agreements, news-publication time and source-review time are distinct.

Source review: Oct 29, 2026 · 1:07 PM EDT

Dated report. Publication, event and review times are different; the review time is when the sources were last checked, not a live update.

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  1. Reuters, Anirban Sen and Edmund Lee: Bloomberg, trading firms to pay Trump for faster Truth Social access, sources say ↗

    October 29 report identifying Bloomberg, Susquehanna and Jump Trading as customers through people with direct knowledge, and supplying the companies' nonresponses, Trump Media's response and White House response

  2. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / Trump Media & Technology Group: July 16 Form 8-K exhibit announcing Truth API ↗

    Primary company exhibit describing the fastest-access product, its intended high-frequency and algorithmic trading customers and millisecond delivery; it does not identify customers

  3. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / Trump Media & Technology Group: August 10 second-quarter results exhibit ↗

    Primary company exhibit confirming the August 1 launch, institutional customers and more than ten customer agreements; Reuters reports company officials said pricing generally ranged from $60,000 to $100,000 per month

  4. Office of Senator Adam Schiff: Schiff and Warren call on SEC to investigate Trump Media's Truth API ↗

    July 29 primary statement and linked letter requesting an SEC investigation; the senators' legal and ethics assertions are allegations, not agency or judicial findings

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