Meta, Facebook's parent company, and President Donald Trump have established a lawsuit that was brought by the president in 2021 after the company suspended its social media accounts after the riots of January 6 on Capitol Hill.
Meta has agreed to pay around $ 25 million to arrange the lawsuit, according to the Wall Street Journal, who reported that Trump signed the settlement agreement on Wednesday.
From the settlement of $ 25 million, $ 22 million goes to a fund for the Presidential Library of Trump and the rest will be used to pay legal costs and claimants for the case.
Mark Zuckerberg and Trump spoke about the court case in November, the journal reports, while the Technical Mogul tried to arouse his relationship with Trump again during a trip to Mar-A-Lago for dinner with the chosen president.
He later returned to Mar-A-Lago in January to arrange the lawsuit with Trump's lawyers.
The settlement is another example of how Zuckerberg quickly tries to restore his relationship with Trump after he has won the 2024 presidential election.
In 2021, Zuckerberg defended the decision to ban Trump from Facebook and Instagram after the riots of January 6, after the president continued to protest the validity of the 2020 elections.
“We believe that the risks to allow the president to continue to use our service during this period are just too great,” said Zuckerberg in a position in which the ban was announced at that time.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg uses a keynote speech at the annual Meta Connect event
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta
The technical billionaire flattered for the first time flattered Trump after he was shot down on the campaign track in July 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania.
'On a personal remark, seeing Donald Trump up after he has been shot in the face and pumping his fist in the air with the American flag, is one of the most bada ** things I ever in my life I saw, “he said at the time.
On January 7, Zuckerberg announced that he would put an end to his facts control program in favor of a community-based verification system.
Zuckerberg also admitted in a subsequent interview with Podcaster Joe Rogan that he made a mistake by censoring speech and banning it on the Meta business platforms.
President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the eastern room of the White House
Meta and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (C) and his wife Priscilla Chan (L) come to the inauguration of the US President-elected Donald Trump
“Afterwards I have the feeling that I have postponed too much to the kind of criticism of the media on what we should do,” he said. “And since then I think that the confidence in the media has generally fallen from a cliff, right?”
Trump has defended his meetings and relationships with technical billionaires, making it part of his efforts to make the country better economically.
“I want to get ideas from them,” he told CNBC -anchor Jim Cramer during an interview in December. 'Look, we want them to do well. We want everyone, and we want great jobs, fantastic salaries. '
The settlement is the newest of many Trump -in the event of lawsuits against media and social media organizations that are arranged instead of being sent to court.
ABC News also agreed to arrange a defamation to the defamation by paying $ 15 million to the Presidential Library of Trump after Anker George Stephanopoulos said that Trump was civil liable for rape.
