Meta has agreed to pay 25 million dollars to resolve a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against the company after he suspended his accounts on Facebook and Instagram after the assault on the Capitol of January 6, 2021, according to US media. Of that amount, 22 million will be used for a fund for a Trump presidential library, while the rest will cover legal expenses and compensation to other parts of the case.
Meta’s lawyer, of the firm Kirland & Ellis, “I write to inform the court that the parties have reached an agreement to reconcile the individual demands of the plaintiffs and resolve this matter. The parties will present a joint stipulation of dismissal with compensation in the next few days, ”he says briefly.
It is the last case of a great company that resolves a litigation with the president, who has reprisined his critics and rivals, and occurs when Meta and its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, have joined other large technological companies to try to congratate the Republican. The ABC News television network and its star presenter, George Stephanopoulos, also destined to the Fund for its Library. The Republican also sued CBS News, a subsidiary of Paramount Global, to edit the interview he conducted to Kamala Harris during the presidential campaign, claiming that it was a form of electoral interference.
In his day, he also sued Twitter Yautube, owned by Google, for the suspension of his accounts. The messages restored the Trump account in November 2022, shortly after being acquired by Elon Musk, while YouTube recovered it in March 2023.
Zuckerberg, 40, has aligned in recent months with Trumpism. He decided to suppress the verification of content and let the bulles circulate freely through their social networks, as they do in X and Tiktok. He also eliminated his diversity, equality and inclusion policies in favor of minorities, a practice placed in Trump and his allies.
After the November elections, the gestures followed. At the end of that month Mar-A-Lago, the mansion of the president-elect in Palm Beach (Florida) to pay printedness. The former vice -first British minister Nick Clegg, in charge of regulatory issues and institutional relations, announced his resignation and Zuckerberg put Joel Kaplan’s regulatory and institutional relations in charge of regulatory and institutional relations to Joel Kaplan, an executive with close ties with the Republicans who carried in the Company since 2011 and served as number two of CLEGG.
Then, CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), organizer of Professional Martial Arts Tournaments, friend and ally of Trump since the tycoon welcomed his fighting in his Atlantic City complex, when wrestling, was in a fall cape .
Next, the changes in their content policy arrived. It is only part of them. Also in his explanations on Instagram, Zuckerberg said that Meta eliminated “restrictions on issues such as immigration and gender that are out of tune with the dominant discourse”, citing “the recent elections” as a catalyst.
A two -year suspension
Goal reactivated Trump accounts on Facebook and Instagram in February 2023 after their support messages to those who assaulted the Capitol of January 6, 2021. Meta. Trump’s profiles on both networks returned with all their active followers.
After his exclusion as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, Trump took refuge in his own social network, Truth, of which he is the main shareholder. Truth Social, belongs to Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), of which Trump is founder and main shareholder.
Meta indefinitely suspended the Facebook and Instagram accounts of the also then president after January 6, 2021 praised the violent in the Capitol. The Supervision Council, an organ of independent experts, following this, target limited the suspension to two years from the date of the original decision, on January 7, 2021, and said that before making any decision on itself lifting it or not, would evaluate whether the risk for public safety had decreased. When the time came, he considered that the risk had disappeared.
