President Trump has signed the disposal papers, which requires the original company of meta platforms, Facebook and Instagram, so that approximately $ 25 million can be paid to resolve 2021 suit According to sources familiar with the agreement, Trump was brought against the social media veteran.
The Wall Street Journal First reported settlement.
The lawsuit stems from the suspension of its accounts of Mata riot At US Capital on 6 January 2021. Facebook (which is now meta) was initially suspended and then in June 2021 it was announced that he would ban Mr. Trump from his platform for at least two years, after finding out that his posts on January . 6 had stopped the violence and took a risk for public safety. Twitter, now named X and is owned by Elon Musk, also stopped Mr. Trump from his social media site for the same reason.
Mr. Trump sued Facebook and Twitter, claiming that he had violated his first amendment for free speech in “illegal, unconstitutional censorship”.
In complaints filed with the US District Court for the southern district of Florida, Mr. Trump had asked the court to reverse Section 230 of the Communication Sense of Act, which saves social media companies from liabilities for the content posted on their platforms. Is, and restores its accounts on two social media sites, as well as their channels on YouTube. He asked the courts to stop Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to “practice in many of their forms in many of their forms, editorial control or pre -restraint” and upload it to the positions of presidents.
According to the Wall Street Journal, $ 22 million will be donated to a fund for Mr. Trump's President's Library, and the rest will be used for legal fees and will go to another plaintiff on the case.
Meta too Donated $ 1 million Mr. Trump's inauguration Fund, and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg attended the inauguration.
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