Fact check: Zelenskyy hasn't banned Trump's Truth Social platform

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Fact check: Zelenskyy hasn't banned Trump's Truth Social platform   Some have falsely claimed that the Ukrainian president did so in retaliation against Trump's recent tirade against him.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/02/26/zelenskyy-hasnt-banned-trumps-truth-social-platform  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Zelensky hasn't banned Trump's TruthSocial platform.

00:08The internet is awash with false claims that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has banned

00:13TruthSocial, the social media platform owned by US President Donald Trump.

00:18Images have appeared on other social networks such as X, purportedly showing screen grabs of

00:23users unable to access TruthSocial in Ukraine. It appears that both supporters and detractors

00:29of Ukraine have been spreading the message, with some commending Zelensky for banning TruthSocial

00:34and others accusing the President of restricting free speech.

00:38The claims follow a war of words between Zelensky and Trump,

00:41which began when the US President launched a barrage of inaccuracies against his Ukrainian

00:46counterpart, including that he was a dictator without elections and was ranking low in opinion

00:51polls. Zelensky responded by saying that Trump was living in a Russian disinformation space.

00:57Many of the posts claiming that Zelensky banned TruthSocial allege that he did so

01:01in retaliation against Trump's falsehoods. But they're yet another example of misinformation,

01:07because Trump Media and Technology Group, which owns the platform, has said as much.

01:11It's said that TruthSocial was never available in Ukraine,

01:14a statement which has been backed by the Ukrainian government itself.

01:18A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on X that Ukraine did not and

01:23could not block access because, unfortunately,

01:26the social network TruthSocial has never made itself available to users in Ukraine.

01:30Various posts sharing the false claims have already been community noted,

01:35linking to articles from other fact-checkers who have also debunked the allegations.

01:39Following Trump's return to the White House, he's repeated a number of untruths about Russia's

01:44war in Ukraine, many of which feed into the Kremlin's own propaganda.

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