Why tech experts are skeptical about plans for a Trump social network

After being banned by most large social networks in January, former President Donald Trump is planning a dramatic return to social media. According to his close advisers, the former president is on the verge of launching a Trump-branded social network to compete with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the former president, remarked on the Fox News program  #MediaBuzz that Mr. Trump is holding "high-powered meetings" with "numerous companies" to build a social network for "tens of millions of people." Another Trump adviser, Corey Lewandowski, told Newsmax host Joe Pinion that the Trump social media site will launch in "three to four months" and will be a place for people to "communicate in a free format without fear of reprisal or being canceled."  Miller and Lewandowski did not respond to multiple requests for comment.