Co-founders Accuse Trump Media of Trying to Dilute Their Shares Ahead of Billion-Dollar Merger

President Trump is set to receive more than $3 billion after a merger that would take his media company public.
Co-founders Accuse Trump Media of Trying to Dilute Their Shares Ahead of Billion-Dollar Merger
This illustration photo shows a person checking the app store on a smartphone for "Truth Social"—owned by Trump Media & Technology Group—with its website on a computer screen in the background, in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 20, 2021. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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Former President Donald Trump’s social media company is facing a lawsuit by its two co-founders, who claimed to be targeted by a scheme to “drastically dilute” their company shares that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The new legal challenge is tied to a much anticipated merger that would make Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of Truth Social, a publicly traded company. The stock price of Digital World Acquisition, a shell company created for the sole purpose of acquiring Trump Media and take it public, has soared by a whopping 136 percent since the beginning of this year.

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