Musk To Pay Trump $10 Million Over J6 Ban By Twitter

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Elon Musk’s X has agreed to pay about $10 million to settle a lawsuit that Donald Trump brought against the company and its former chief executive, according to people familiar with the matter.

The agreement makes X the second social-media platform to settle litigation that Trump filed when the companies deplatformed him over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Trump, along with other plaintiffs, filed the lawsuit in 2021 against the company, then called Twitter, and its CEO at the time, Jack Dorsey. Musk reinstated Trump on the platform in November 2022.

Read the full article. A small kickback for the $400 million in “armored Teslas.” Last week Meta agreed to pay Trump $25 million for banning him from Facebook after the insurrection.

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