Meta will pay $25 million to settle Donald Trump's 2021 lawsuit against the tech company, which came after the president's social media accounts were suspended following the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against the company after it suspended his accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, AP sources said.
President Donald Trump signed a settlement agreement to end a 2021 lawsuit he brought against Meta after it suspended his Facebook account.
Meta agreed to pay $25 million to settle Donald Trump’s lawsuit alleging censorship over the social media giant’s suspension of his Facebook and Instagram accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.
The official @Potus Instagram account appears to have seen a significant drop in followers since President Trump took office last week.
"Facebook’s own Oversight Board concluded that the...indefinite deplatforming of President Trump lacked any basis in its existing, consistently applied community standards."
President Trump had sued Meta and other tech firms in 2021, arguing that he had been wrongfully censored by them. Meta also reported revenue and profit growth for the fourth quarter.
Meta has settled a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump after the social media giant suspended him from their Facebook and Instagram platforms following the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. As part of the agreement,
Mark Zuckerberg’s behemoth is just the latest tech or media company to settle a potentially winnable lawsuit to avoid any conflict with the new administration.
Brought by Trump in 2021, the lawsuit alleged Meta improperly suspended his social media accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Meta has announced it will be settling a four-year-long lawsuit from President Donald Trump that was filed against the company