Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) has deployed what it claims is a "cross-country network of data centers that power its custom-built content delivery network (CDN)."
The Truth Social operator said that the CDN will be used to support Truth+, the company's own streaming service.
TMTG CEO Devin Nunes said that the company had "created its own hardware infrastructure and software system to operate a unique content delivery network."
Details about the CDN platform are limited. In July, the company acquired WorldConnect Technologies - a joint venture between WorldConnect IPTV and JedTec - in an all-stock deal.
WorldConnect took down its website after journalists contacted the business that month for more information. CEO Dr. Jarrett Flood is a serial entrepreneur who says that he worked with Russian state energy giant Gazprom in the 1980s.
Business records discovered by ProPublica revealed that JedTec was owned by Republican donor James E. Davison, a major owner in oil pipeline business Genesis Energy. Davison's personal lawyer is reportedly on TMTG's board.
That business appears to have rights to CDN technology from Perception TV, a Canada-based business with offices in Slovenia, London, and Dubai.
An investigation by Fortune found that Perception worked with Chinese and Russian state-backed propaganda networks, Islamist television channels, and Iranian corporations.
Many of those enterprises are now sanctioned, but there is no implication of wrongdoing at the time of the deals. Perception said it stopped working with companies as soon as they were blacklisted.
“This story, which combines nonsensical insinuations about our company and our partners with false allegations appropriated from other publications, is a textbook example showing why Americans now dismiss the legacy media as a collection of politicized hacks,” a spokesperson at TMTG told Fortune.
For their role in the deal, WorldConnect and JedTec received 2.6 million shares of TMTG altogether, with the option for another 2.5 million upon completion of the project. That equates to around $155m at the time of the deal to act as an apparent middleman between TMTG and Perception.
TMTG will also purchase Perception’s source code from WorldConnect for $17.5 million.
SEC filings by Trump Media say that the company uses colocated data center facilities, but further specifics are not shared.
"TMTG expects cost of revenue to increase significantly in the foreseeable future as it expands its Truth Social and Truth+ platforms. Such increases will likely include investment in infrastructure and other direct costs such as revenue share expenses, allocated facility costs, and traffic acquisition costs," the filing stated.
A filing on election day revealed that the company lost $19.2 million in its third quarter. It reported $2.6m in revenue and a net loss of $363m for the first nine months of the year.
This week, the Financial Times reported that the Truth Social parent company is in advanced talks to buy Bakkt, a cryptocurrency trading platform.
President-elect Donald Trump owns nearly 115 million shares and has a nearly 53 percent stake in Trump Media. Bloomberg has calculated that it accounts for more than half of his $5.7 billion personal wealth.
However, the platform receives a small number of daily visits for a social media platform, with an average of 646,000 daily visits this month, according to Similarweb.
X, the platform owned by Trump backer Elon Musk, is believed to receive 155m visits a day.
