Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, has just agreed to pay out $10 million to settle a lawsuit with President Trump.

President Trump originally sued the platform in 2021 for suspending his Twitter account after the January 6th Capitol protests.

Last month, Meta (Facebook) agreed to a $25 million payout to President Trump in a similar lawsuit over suspending his accounts.

It remains to be seen what President Trump does with the payment from X, but the funds from Meta will be allocated to the construction of his presidential library.

And what a library it will be!

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Forbes reported:

President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against X, formerly known as Twitter, will be settled by the Elon Musk-owned platform, according to The Wall Street Journal, with X agreeing to pay $10 million to resolve the suit based around censorship claims levied by Trump in 2021.

X will dish out $10 million despite the platform no longer being led by former CEO Jack Dorsey, who led the platform when it banned Trump’s account in 2021 for comments he made about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack that the platform said violated its glorification of violence policy.

Trump sued Twitter, Facebook and Google four years ago, alleging the companies censored him in the wake of his defensive comments on the attack on the Capitol.

Trump’s attorneys considered dropping the lawsuit due to Musk’s stance as a Trump ally before and after the presidential election, according to the Journal, which cited unnamed people familiar with the matter.

The New York Post added:

Elon Musk’s social media platform X has agreed to pay about $10 million to settle a lawsuit that President Trump brought against the company and its former chief executive, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

That makes X the second social media platform to settle with Trump over the suspension of his accounts following the storming of the US Capitol by his supporters in January 2021.

Last month, Meta Platforms said it had agreed to pay about $25 million to settle a lawsuit by Trump. Trump filed lawsuits against Twitter, now known as X, Facebook and Alphabet, as well as their chief executives at the time in July 2021, alleging unlawful silencing of conservative viewpoints.

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