The American Technology Meta agreed to pay $ 25 million to resolve the demand that President Donald Trump filed in 2021 for vetoing him in his social networks after the assault on the Capitol by his followers that year, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) .
The WSJ, which quotes knowledgeable by the agreement, indicates that 22 million of the amount will be used to finance the Trump presidential library and the rest to legal expenses and to compensate for other complainants.
The president sued his top executive, Mark Zuckerberg, after the technology suspended their Facebook and Instagram accounts after the assault on the Capitol of January 6, 2021, in which he encouraged his followers to prevent the certification of the Electoral victory of Democrat Joe Biden. Also the network called Twitter vetoed Trump.
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The agreement to close the dispute occurs just at a time of net approach from Zuckerberg to Trump, which has been accompanied by meetings between the two, a millionaire sponsorship of the investiture act and a change of speech of the young executive to align with that of the president In matters such as freedom of expression, supposedly ‘alibi’ in the past years by progressive ideologies.
According to the newspaper, the conversations about the agreement progressed after a visit from Zuckerberg to Trump’s mansion in Florida in November, in which the then republican candidate took the subject and told him that the demand had to be resolved to “enter his Circle, ”said the sources.
Subsequently, at the beginning of January, the Executive returned to the mansion for a “whole day of mediation” that was interrupted by the virtual sentence in his criminal case in New York, and in which he played the golf, adds the newspaper.
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The agreement is similar to that reached Trump with ABC News for defamation in December, in which the chain agreed to pay 15 million dollars that will be allocated to a Trump presidential foundation and museum.
With EFE information
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