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Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle Trump lawsuit over suspended accounts

  • Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump after suspending his accounts following the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
  • The settlement includes $22 million allocated to a fund for Trump's future presidential library and the remainder for legal fees.
  • The Wall Street Journal initially reported on the settlement agreement between Meta and Trump.
  • Zuckerberg has donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration and met with him at Mar-A-Lago.
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Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to resolve a lawsuit filed by U.S. President Donald Trump against the company after he suspended his accounts after the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, according to three people aware of the matter.It's the last case of a large corporation that resolves disputes with the president, who has threatened to retaliate its critics and rivals, and comes at a time when Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, have joined …

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Mark Zuckerberg's approach to Donald Trump's new administration translates into increasingly concrete actions. After attending the swearing in of the US president, the founder of Facebook decided to make a deal with the tycoon, agreeing to pay 25 million dollars to settle the lawsuit filed by the president in 2021 against Meta - which owns Facebook and Instagram - and its CEO after the suspension of Trump's accounts following the January 6 attac…

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