Meta Agrees To Pay $25 Million To Settle Donald Trump’s Lawsuit Over Account Suspension

Dead A lawsuit has been resolved Donald Trump After the social media giant suspended it from Facebook and Instagram The platforms followed January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.

As part of the agreement, Meta will pay $ 25 million, including about $ 22 million for Trump’s presidential library and the rest go to legal fees and other prosecutors who were part of the litigation. Meta spokesman confirmed the settlement, which was reported by the Wall Street Journal for the first time.

“I write to the court’s informing that the parties have reached an agreement to settle the individual claims of the named prosecutors and solve this issue. The parties will present a common text to decide with bias in the coming days,” K. Winn Allen, Meta Lawyer, Mark ZuckerbergHe wrote in a file to the federal judge who supervises the case in San Francisco.

Trump’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump and other defendants filed the case in 2021, claiming that they were victims of “unacceptable censorship” by the platform. It made clear a violation of the first amendment, claiming that Mita was “behaving in coordination with federal officials”, including officials in diseases control centers and members of Joe Biden’s transition team. The lawsuit claims that Trump’s first amendment rights have been violated because Facebook is acting as a public forum.

In its response, Meta noted that the first amendment prevented the government – not a private party – from the short discourse.

The company’s lawyers wrote in 2022, “Meta and its CEO are private parties. Although some private parties have been treated as a government active element in limited circumstances, many courts – including at least dozens of dozens in this boycott – It has seen that the definition and the companies are not representatives of the state for the first amendment.

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