Elon Musk’s social network, agreed to pay approximately 10 million dollars to resolve a lawsuit that President Donald Trump filed against the company and his former executive director, reported the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
This makes the platform the second social network to reach an agreement with Trump for the suspension of its accounts, after the assault on the US Capitol by its followers in January 2021.
Last month, Meta Platforms said he had agreed to pay around 25 million dollars to resolve a Trump demand.
Trump filed lawsuits against Twitter, now known as X, Facebook and Alphabet, as well as against the executive directors of those companies at that time, in July 2021, alleging the illegal silencing of conservative views.
The Trump team considered letting the demand against X faded, given the president’s close relationship with Musk, who had contributed 250 million dollars to his electoral campaign, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
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However, they finally decided to proceed with the agreement, according to the WSJ.
Musk, who leads Tesla, also directs the Government’s efficiency department, a new White House branch in charge of radically reducing the federal bureaucracy.
It is expected that Trump’s lawyers also look for an agreement with Google, which suspended Trump from YouTube after the assault on the US Capitol in 2021, said the WSJ.
The X and its CEO network at the time of Trump’s suspension, Jack Dorsy, as well as Alphabet and the White House, did not immediately respond to Reuters comments requests.
With Reuters information
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