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Meta to pay $25m to settle Trump lawsuit

Donald Trump has signed a legal settlement that will see Facebook and Instagram owner Meta pay out roughly $25m. Trump sued the social media giant and its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, in 2021 over the suspension of his accounts after the 6 January Capitol riots that year. Of the sum, $22m will go toward a fund for Trump’s presidential library, with the rest going to legal fees and the other plaintiffs who signed on to the case. Meta won’t admit wrongdoing, people familiar with the agreement said. The Wall Street Journal notes that the Meta lawsuit was one of several legal actions that Trump brought in July 2021 against social media companies, including Twitter, now renamed X, and YouTube, that had suspended his accounts. A federal judge dismissed the Twitter suit, and the Google suit was administratively closed in 2023 but could be reopened.

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