Meta To Pay Trump $25M For Suspending Him In 2021

The Wall Street Journal reports:

President Trump has signed settlement papers that are expected to require Meta Platforms to pay roughly $25 million to resolve a 2021 lawsuit Trump brought after the company suspended his accounts following the attacks on the U.S. Capitol that year, according to people familiar with the agreement.

Of that, $22 million will go to a fund for Trump’s presidential library with the rest to be shared by others who signed on to the suit. Meta won’t admit wrongdoing, the people said. Trump signed the agreement this afternoon in the Oval Office.

Read the full article. Zuckerberg had suspended Trump as an “imminent danger to public order.” Last week he attended Trump’s inauguration in the Capitol Rotunda after donating $1 million to Trump’s “inauguration fund.”

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