The South African tycoon, Elon Musk, agreed to pay 10 million dollars to dismiss the legal battle that the US president, Donald Trump, had undertaken against the giant of social networks for having been excluded from the platform after the attack on January 6, As reported on Wednesday The Wall Street Journal.
The Trump team considered leaving the demand, according to sources close to the matter to the WSJ, citing Musk’s proximity with the president and the fact that he spent 250 million dollars to help choose it. However, they finally advanced with the agreement despite the close relationship between Trump and Musk, the medium recounts.
Musk is since the last electoral campaign the right hand of the Republican leader and since the beginning of his second term on January 20 he is in charge of the Government Efficiency Department (Doge), in charge of cutting federal expenses and bureaucracy.
X, at that time known as Twitter, decided to suspend the Trump account in January 2021, in the midst of the political tension derived from the presidential 2020 and the assault on the Capitol that starred the politicians of the politician.
The last message of the Republican before that veto, of January 8, 2021, was: “To all who have asked, I will not attend the inauguration (by Joe Biden) on January 20”.
At the end of 2022, after acquiring the social network for 44,000 million dollars, Musk ordered to restore the Trump account, but the latter, which had created its own platform, Truth Social, chose to leave it inactive.
It did not reappear in it until August 2024.
Trump initially filed the lawsuit in July 2021, months after access was prohibited.
The company alleged at that time that its decision was due “to the risk of greater incitement to violence”, while the affected person argued that the measure violated the first amendment, which protects freedom of expression.
A Federal Judge of California dismissed Trump’s initial lawsuit in May 2022, stating that Twitter did not act as part of the United States government and, therefore, did not violate his rights, but Trump had appealed that decision.
On January 29 the newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) indicated that the Meta -American technological agreed Assault on the Capitol.
The WSJ, who cited sources known to the agreement, indicated that 22 million of the amount were going to allocate to finance the Trump Presidential Library and the rest to legal expenses and to compensate for other complainants.
