Meta Platforms Inc.  , agreed to pay$ 25 million to resolve Donald Trump’s claims that his ban from the company’s social media networks after the , Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the , US Capitol , was illegal censorship, a lawyer for the president said.
Meta will contribute$ 22 million to the presidential library and the remainder to other users of Meta ‘s , Facebook , who also sued over being banned, lawyer , John Coale , said in a phone interview. Meta spokesperson , Andy Stone , confirmed facts of the contract and declined further comment.
The lawsuit comes as the once-chilly connection between Trump and Meta Chief Executive Officer , Mark Zuckerberg , has warmed up. Zuckerberg just loosened content limits on the company’s systems that liberals have complained about for decades, and he attended the government’s opening.
When Trump initially sued , Facebook , over the ban — and individually sued , Twitter Inc.  , and Google’s YouTube over the bans they imposed following the , Jan. 6 , attack — he sought economic damages to condemn the companies and maintain different users can’t get banned or flagged by the tech giants.
By the time the restrictions were lifted, Trump had mostly focused his social press remark on his own networking, Truth Social.
” I’m glad it’s over with”, Coale said. Because they committed some terrible crimes in 2021, Meta may had given up on this kind of funding.
Coale said Zuckerberg individually reached the arrangement with Trump while just visiting the government’s Mar-a-Lago property in , Florida.
There’s no admission of wrongdoing by Meta in the authority, Coale said.
” They’ve taken accountability and finally everybody’s content now”, he said.
The lawsuit was reported before by the , Wall Street Journal.
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