Meta has announced it will be settling a four-year-long lawsuit from President Donald Trump that was filed against the company
"Facebook’s own Oversight Board concluded that the...indefinite deplatforming of President Trump lacked any basis in its existing, consistently applied community standards."
Meta will pay $25 million to settle Donald Trump's 2021 lawsuit against the tech company, which came after the president's social media accounts were suspended following the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
The suit was brought after Facebook, among other social media platforms, suspended Trump's account following the Jan. 6 insurrection that attempted to overthrow the 2020 election.
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Meta agreed to a $25 million settlement over a 2021 lawsuit President Donald Trump brought against Meta for suspending his accounts after the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the news, and Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the settlement to The Verge.
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