Tech Giant Meta is hoped that President Donald Trump will pay tens of millions of dollars after the company bans Trump from the social media platform just before the end of his first term.
On Wednesday, Spokesman Andy Stone has confirmed that Meta agree to pay $ 25 million. Most of the amount -22 million is expected to be given to Trump's future presidential library, and $ 3 million is spent on legal and other plaintiffs. NBC News It has been reported.
Meta has already submitted a settlement notice to the San Francisco Federal Court. According to the reconciliation conditions, Meta does not need to admit fraud. The White House did not respond to the comment request.
Trump threatened Zuckerberg that he would “spend the rest of his life in prison,” when he interfered with the 2024 election.
The case is related to the brawl at the Congress on January 6, 2021, just two weeks before Trump resigned. Immediately after the incident, Trump was banned on most social media platforms, including Meta Facebook and Instagram.
At that time, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Trump argued that “it has tried to impair the peaceful and legal transition to Joe Biden, the selected successor.”
In July 2021, Trump filed a series of lawsuits against various social media companies to ban accounts. Later, a lawsuit for a platform called Twitter was thrown, and the lawsuit against Google was “closed on management,” but could be resumed. Wall Street Journal It has been reported.
About 18 months later, Trump was aiming for the Republican Republican President in 2024, so Meta canceled the Stop Trump account, but there were some guardrails to prevent “repeated crimes.” “You should be able to hear what the politicians are saying. company I said in January 2023.
During the campaign, Trump continued to call on social media platforms that seemed to be clearly engaged in censorship and malicious political activities. Trump even threatened it in the book released earlier this year Zuckerberg If you interfere with the 2024 election, “spend the rest of your life in prison.”
Meanwhile, Zuckerberg has recently changed his tone about playing cards. In July, after the candy dating at the Batler, Pennsylvania, Zuckerberg claimed that Trump's photos pumped his fist and shouted, “Fight!” It was “one of the most bada ** things” he had seen so far.
A month later, he pledged to end the Zack Bucks plan, which had a controversy that influenced the 2020 presidential election. He also acknowledged A letter To accommodate Jim Jordan (R-OHIO), a judicial chairman, whose Facebook spike the story of the hunter laptop and claimed that Facebook was “under pressure to censors to the Americans during the Biden-Harris administration.” 。
After the November election, Zuckerberg frequently contacted Trump, visited the presidential election at least twice at his home in MAR-A-LAGO, and some discussed the litigation on the reservation on the meta. I did.
Meta donated $ 1 million to Trump's inauguration fund, and Zuckerberg attended several events on the day of the inauguration ceremony.
In the evening of the inauguration ceremony, Zuckerberg posted Facebook The photos of himself and his wife, Prissira Chang, have a caption, along with the American flagship, “optimistic and celebrated.”
Perhaps Meta abandoned DEI's policy and signed UFC's reputation Trump Ally White to further invade the new administration. board of directors。
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