Meta pays Trump $ 25 million for account lock

The Facebook group Meta pays $ 25 million to Donald Trump to get a lawsuit about the account of today’s US president. Of these, $ 22 million (a good 21 million euros) should flow into the Fund for Trump’s presidential library, the “Wall Street Journal” wrote. Among other things, the rest would be paid for attorney fees. A little later, Meta confirmed the report without further details.

Meanwhile, the only thing that shows that there is an agreement between the parties.

Meta, like other online platforms, had locked out on the Capitol in Washington after the attack of his followers on Facebook and Instagram in early January 2021. At that time, the rioters interrupted a meeting of the US parliament, in which Joe Biden and Trump’s defeat was to be sealed in the presidential election.

Trump had previously stare at his followers when he appeared with the false claims that the election had been stolen by massive election fraud. During the attack, he initially refrained from calling the attackers from the Capitol to retreat.

The online platforms justified the lock with the risk of calls for violence. Trump, on the other hand, went to court in 2021. Meta raised the lock again after two years in January 2023.