X places a legal dispute with Trump – and pays 10 million USD

The Social-Media-Plattform X according to media reports wants to be round $ ten million for the settlement one Legal dispute With US President Donald Trump pay. This was reported by the “Wall Street Journal” (WSJ) on Wednesday (local time), citing insiders. This would make X (then still Twitter) the second social media platform, which with Trump because of the blocking of his accounts after the Distribution of the US capitol agreed by his followers in January 2021.

Trump’s team considered the legal dispute with X in the face of the close relationship of the president Musk The WSJ reported to let it expire. Ultimately, however, they agreed on a comparison. Gave last month Facebook mother Meta Already known to want to pay about $ 25 million to enclose a lawsuit from Trump.

Trump submitted a lawsuit against Twitter in July 2021, now known as X, Facebook and Alphabet and claimed Conservative views would suppressed illegally. Twitter prevailed in the first instance. Finally, an appeal procedure ran – and in a hearing in autumn 2023, the arguments on the Trump side also met the judges there. At the beginning of this week, however, the application for appeal was withdrawn, as can be seen from court documents.

Sturm on the Capitol 2021 as a trigger

Trump’s supporter interrupted a session of the US parliament in January 2021, in which the election victory of Joe Biden and Trump’s defeat should be sealed in the presidential election. Trump had previously raised his supporters when he appeared with the false claims that the election massive voting fraud had been stolen. During the attack, he initially refrained from calling the attackers from the Capitol to retreat.

The online platforms justified the lock with the Danger of violence calls. Meta initially blocked Trump for two years, but Twitter, on the other hand, emphasized his own rules that his return to the platform was not possible. But when Musk bought Twitter for around $ 44 billion in autumn 2022, he unlocked Trump’s account again. Meta raised the lock again after two years in January 2023.

Musk put more than $ 250 million in Trump’s election campaign last year and became one of his closest confidants. Trump gave him the order to shorten the government expenditure. It is expected that Trump’s lawyers are now also one Comparison with Google Strive.