{"id":116193,"date":"2025-01-31T02:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T01:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=116193"},"modified":"2025-01-31T02:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T01:16:19","slug":"meta-agrees-to-pay-trump-25m-for-account-ban-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/meta-agrees-to-pay-trump-25m-for-account-ban-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta agrees to pay Trump $25m for account ban settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed claiming he was wrongfully censored by Facebook and Instagram after the US Capitol riot, the company said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal first reported the settlement of the suit brought against Meta and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, in what was seen as a victory for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>According to people familiar with the agreement, the Journal said, $22 million of the payment will go towards funding Trump\u2019s future presidential library, with the remainder covering legal fees and payments to other plaintiffs in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Meta, in the settlement, will not admit wrongdoing over the suspensions of Trump\u2019s accounts.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Meta confirmed the settlement to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had widely criticized social media platforms for suspending his accounts after the January 6, 2021, insurrection by his supporters and for comments he made that were seen as praising people engaged in the violence.<\/p>\n<p>But he has recently courted tech titans including Zuckerberg and X owner Elon Musk, both of whom attended Trump\u2019s presidential inauguration last week in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg has expressed support for Trump, and he has tweaked Meta\u2019s policies to lift restrictions on some content within the company\u2019s apps, which include Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>Meta would be \u201crestoring free expression on our platforms,\u201d Zuckerberg, who reportedly dined with Trump at his Florida estate in November, said this month in announcing a rollback of fact-checking operations.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement is the latest bow by media corporations as they gird for a second Trump presidency.<\/p>\n<p>In December, ABC News agreed to pay a $15 million settlement payment to resolve a defamation lawsuit brought by Trump stemming from on-air comments about him made by a top anchor.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Wednesday Meta reported its net income soared by 59 percent to $62.36 billion for the full year.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed claiming he was wrongfully censored by Facebook and Instagram after the US Capitol&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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