More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts
More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts
超过10家公司每月支付高达10万美元，以获取Truth Social帖子的优先访问权
More than 10 customers have signed up to Trump Media’s controversial service that offers faster access to market-moving posts made on its Truth Social platform. 已有超过10家客户签约了特朗普媒体（Trump Media）一项备受争议的服务，该服务旨在提供对其Truth Social平台上能够影响市场的帖子的优先访问权。
The service, Truth API, launched at the beginning of August and gives Wall Street traders first sight of posts from the social media site’s most influential accounts. 这项名为“Truth API”的服务于8月初推出，让华尔街交易员能够第一时间看到该社交媒体网站上最具影响力账号发布的帖子。
Its earliest customers are mostly in high-frequency trading firms who are being charged between $60,000-$100,000 (£44,000-£74,000) a month for the service, interim chief executive officer Kevin McGurn said during an earnings call. 临时首席执行官凯文·麦格恩（Kevin McGurn）在财报电话会议上表示，其首批客户大多是高频交易公司，他们每月需为该服务支付6万至10万美元（约合4.4万至7.4万英镑）的费用。
He was speaking after Trump Media reported a loss of $238m between April and June. 他是在特朗普媒体公布4月至6月期间亏损2.38亿美元后发表上述言论的。
The quarterly loss is more than 10 times the amount reported during the same period a year earlier, according to the Trump Media and Technology Group, and comes as the group branched into ventures unrelated to media, including cryptocurrencies. 据特朗普媒体与技术集团（Trump Media and Technology Group）称，这一季度亏损额是去年同期亏损额的10倍以上，且正值该集团涉足与媒体无关的业务（包括加密货币）之际。
The group, which is yet to make a profit, says it will refocus on its social media mission. 该集团目前尚未实现盈利，并表示将重新专注于其社交媒体业务。
In July, it announced a plan to give Wall Street firms and institutional investors faster access to posts on Truth Social, where Trump frequently makes announcements. It has been viewed as a way to give subscribers an edge in trading stocks and other heavily traded assets. 今年7月，该公司宣布了一项计划，旨在让华尔街公司和机构投资者能够更快地获取Truth Social上的帖子，特朗普经常在该平台上发布公告。此举被视为让订阅者在股票和其他热门交易资产中获得优势的一种方式。
The move has prompted legal and ethical questions, including whether it is right that a company - of which the president’s family remains the majority shareholder - stands to potentially profit from his own public statements. 此举引发了法律和道德方面的质疑，包括一家由总统家族控股的公司，通过总统本人的公开声明来获取潜在利润是否妥当。
The new service is “expected to provide the company with a new revenue stream,” Trump Media said in its earnings statement on Monday. 特朗普媒体在周一的财报声明中表示，这项新服务“预计将为公司提供一个新的收入来源”。
The firm believes the service will develop into a “meaningful” and “durable” source of revenue, on top of the company’s broader media strategy which includes advertising and digital assets, McGurn said. 麦格恩表示，公司相信该服务将发展成为一种“有意义”且“持久”的收入来源，并补充到公司更广泛的媒体战略（包括广告和数字资产）中去。
Truth Media is also exploring opportunities with technology firms, news organisations and betting markets, he added. 他补充说，特朗普媒体也在探索与科技公司、新闻机构和博彩市场的合作机会。
The BBC has contacted Trump Media and Technology Group for further comment. BBC已联系特朗普媒体与技术集团寻求进一步置评。
The company posted $1.7m in revenue, which it said was up 89% from the same period a year before, but suffered an overall loss due to the drop in cryptocurrencies. 该公司公布的营收为170万美元，称较去年同期增长了89%，但由于加密货币价格下跌，公司整体出现亏损。
It added that it closed the second quarter with total assets of $2bn and financial assets of about $1.9bn, which includes cash, short-term investments and digital currencies. 公司补充称，第二季度结束时总资产为20亿美元，金融资产约为19亿美元，其中包括现金、短期投资和数字货币。
The group is expanding into areas including cryptocurrency holdings and clean-energy investments. 该集团正在向加密货币持有和清洁能源投资等领域扩张。
Trump Media is more of a crypto holdings firm “wrapped around” a media company, and the bulk of its losses have come from that strategy, Markus Thielen, an analyst from 10x Research, told the BBC. 10x Research的分析师马库斯·蒂伦（Markus Thielen）告诉BBC，特朗普媒体更像是一家“披着媒体公司外衣”的加密货币持有公司，其大部分亏损都源于这一战略。
The company is diversifying beyond its crypto business into areas such as social media, though those ventures have yet to generate significant revenue, Thielen said. 蒂伦表示，该公司正在将其业务从加密货币领域多元化扩展到社交媒体等领域，尽管这些业务尚未产生显著收入。
Earlier this month, Trump Media scrapped plans for a project with Crypto.com to introduce prediction market features on the Truth Social platform. 本月早些时候，特朗普媒体取消了与Crypto.com合作在Truth Social平台上引入预测市场功能的计划。