Donald Trump's new social media platform is dealing with some authorized points virtually instantly, coming from a moderately surprising supply—a solar energy firm primarily based within the U.Ok.

Trump's new app, Fact Social, went stay on the Apple Retailer on Monday, February 21, to coincide with President's Day, five months after it was first introduced.

The app (created by the Trump Media and Expertise Group, TMTG) is right-wing "free speech" originated social media app just like Gettr, Parler or Gab, and was arrange by Trump after he was banned from all different mainstream social media websites within the wake of the January 6 assault.

Nonetheless, upon its launch within the Apple app retailer, different social media customers seen that Fact Social's emblem—a purple sq. with a white "T" and a turquoise sq. within the backside proper—is nearly similar to that of a British inexperienced power firm, Trailar.

The Fact Social emblem even has the left aspect of the "T" minimize off in the very same method as Trailar's, an organization which inserts photo voltaic mats on prime of economic autos throughout the globe, in an effort to save on gas, CO2 emissions and upkeep prices.

In a press release to Newsweek, Trailer confirmed that it's now "in search of authorized recommendation" to find out the most effective plan of action after being made conscious of the similarities between Fact Social's emblem, and its personal emblem.

"Based mostly on current information delivered to our consideration by numerous media retailers, showcasing the similarities between our personal Trailar emblem and the Fact Social emblem, we at the moment are in search of authorized recommendation to know subsequent steps and choices obtainable to guard our model," mentioned Matthew Summers, head of selling, Trailar.

"Trailar has no affiliation or reference to the Fact Social community web site, with our enterprise firmly centered on decarbonising world transport by means of using photo voltaic and information pushed applied sciences."

In a tweet, the corporate added: "Nice to see Donald Trump supporting a rising sustainability enterprise! Perhaps ask subsequent time?

The emblem will not be the one difficulty which has affected Fact Social on its launch day.

Whereas a variety of distinguished right-wing figures have been urging individuals to following them on their new accounts, tens of hundreds of individuals have been positioned in queues whereas attempting to register their profiles, whereas others are seeing frequent error messages.

As of Monday morning, it was reported that greater than 170,000 individuals had been at present on the ready checklist to register a brand new account with Fact Social.

The app is at present not obtainable on Android and there's no corresponding web site for customers to entry.

Former Congressman Devin Nunes, a California Republican who resigned to turn out to be chief government officer of TMTG in January, beforehand mentioned he count on it to be totally rolled out by the top of March.

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A telephone display screen shows the Fact Social app in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2022. A British firm is contemplating authorized motion as the emblem for Donald Trump's new app is nearly similar to its personal. STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Pictures