A lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in New York challenges a plan to sell early access to President Trump’s posts on Truth Social for up to $100,000 a month, arguing the First Amendment “guarantees equal access to the President’s public announcements.”

The lawsuit also charged Mr. Trump “stands to gain financially by giving ‘market-moving’ government information to those who are willing and able to pay his personal company.” The complaint was filed by Freedom of The Press Foundation and The Intercept.

The lawsuit noted that since Mr. Trump returned to the White House in 2025, he has published thousands of posts on Truth Social that were not followed up by any official announcement from the White House. “In other words, President Trump’s posts are the only way to get official government news,” the lawsuit said.

In the complaint, lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that the First Amendment requires any restriction on equal access to public information to “serve a legitimate governmental purpose.” Selling early access to Mr. Trump’s posts to private buyers does not meet that constitutional test, they said.

In a statement, a company spokesman said “left wing activists are trying to wrongly weaponize the courts to censor” Mr. Trump and to harm the company’s shareholders.

Mr. Trump is the largest shareholder in Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social. His eldest son Donald Jr. is a board member and oversees a trust that controls his father’s stake. The suit names Mr. Trump and other White House officials as defendants, but does not name Trump Media itself.