'What idiots we are': Truth Social users lose hundreds of thousands of dollars to scammers

A new report has published detailed complaints from users of former President Donald Trump's Truth Social app describing how they were fleeced by the site's hordes of scammers — including some who lost six-figure sums.

According to Gizmodo' tech reporter Matt Novak — who filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seeking complaints about scams on Truth Social — many of the app's users fell victim to a scam known as "pig butchering." That type of scam involves a grifter winning the trust of a mark...