Washington – Meta has agreed to pay $ 25 million to pay a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against the company after suspending his accounts following the January 6th attack in Capitol, according to three people acquainted with the matter.
It is the latest example of a large corporation that resolves litigation with the president, who has threatened the punishment of his critics and rivals, and comes as Meta and her CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, have joined other companies technological in trying to engineering yourself with the new administration Trump
People familiar with the issue spoke about the state of anonymity Wednesday to discuss the agreement. Two people said the terms of the agreement include $ 22 million going on non -profit that will become the future presidential library of Trump and the balance that goes to legal tariffs and other litigants.
Zuckerberg visited Trump in his private club in Florida in November as part of a technological series, business and government officials to make a pilgrimage to Palm Beach to try to fix fences with the president. At the dinner, Trump brought the court case and suggested that they try to resolve it, starting for two months of negotiations between the parties, people said.
Meta also made a $ 1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural committee and Zuckerberg was among several billionaires given key seats during the Trump oath last week at Capitol Rotunda, along with Google Sundar, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Elon Musk, who now owns the X platform, previously known as Twitter.
Before Trump’s inauguration, Meta also announced it was checking the facts on its platform-a long advantage of Trump and its allies.
Trump filed a lawsuit months after leaving office, calling for action by social media companies “illegal, shameful censorship of the American people”.
Twitter, Facebook and Google are all private companies, and users must agree with their service conditions to use their products. According to Article 230 of the Law on the Decisiveness of Communication of 1996, social media platforms are allowed to moderate their services by removing posts that, for example, are shameful or violate the standards of their own services, as long as they are operating in ” good faith. ” The law also generally excludes internet companies from responsibility for the material used by users.
But Trump and some other politicians have long argued that X, previously known as Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms, have abused that protection and must lose their immunity – or at least limited it.
Meta solution comes after ABC News agreed last month to pay $ 15 million to Trump’s presidential library to resolve a lawsuit for defamation over George Stephanopoulos’s anchor, inaccurate assertion in the air that the elected president was found responsible for civic raped writer E. Jean Carroll.
The network also agreed to pay $ 1 million in the legal fee for Trump’s lawyer Alejandro Brito.
The settlement agreement describes the payment of the ABC presidential library as a “charitable contribution”, with the money set for a nonprofit organization that is being created about the still built library.
Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the solution.
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