How the concept of "truth" has evolved.

Around 1775, the story of the cherry tree states that when George Washington was a child of six years, his father gave him a hatchet as a gift. George was very excited to use this hatchet, and did so in abundance. One day, while chopping at various trees in his estate, George decided to cut down his father’s favorite cherry tree. When later confronted by his father, George was said to sheepishly deliver one of his most famous lines, “I cannot tell a lie,” after which he confessed to his actions. His father then forgave him because “his honesty was worth more than a thousand trees.”

In 2020, Trump again blames California for causing wildfires with poor forest management: "Trees can explode"

PC Mag AU: Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon

To avoid a lawsuit, Donald Trump’s social media site is quietly acknowledging the computer code powering the platform comes from Mastodon.

Trump’s “Truth Social” site now features a dedicated section labeled “open source,” which contains a Zip archive to Mastodon’s source code.
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Truth Social created the section on Nov. 12th, two weeks after social networking provider Mastodon threatened to sue Trump’s platform for violating its open-source license.

Although Truth Social has yet to launch, an early test build went live in October, and users immediately noticed it adopted several design elements from Mastodon’s software. But at the time, Truth Social made no attempt to credit Mastodon or publish the computer code behind it.

Since Mastodon is an open-source software project, anyone can use it for free. But if you do, the software license demands the code and any ensuing modifications to your Mastodon-powered platform be made publicly available, allowing the entire Mastodon community to benefit.

...Trump’s social media site had claimed all of its source code was “proprietary,” and controlled solely by Truth Social.

In response, Mastodon sent a letter to Trump’s social media platform, demanding its source code be published within 30 days or face legal action involving copyright infringement. Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko now tells PCMag he’s holding off on filing any lawsuit.

“We haven't received any communication back from them, but they've uploaded a ZIP archive of the source code, which for now seems to bring them in compliance,” Rochko said in an email.

However, it appears the uploaded Zip archive is simply a barebones version of the existing Mastodon source code you can already find on Github.
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