San Francisco:
The social media platform X from Elon Musk has agreed to pay around $ 10 million to arrange a lawsuit that the US President Donald Trump has established against the company and his former Chief Executive, reported the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
That makes X the second platform for social media to settle with Trump about the suspension of his accounts after storming the American Capitol by its supporters in January 2021.
Last month, Meta platforms said it had agreed to pay around $ 25 million to arrange a lawsuit by Trump. Trump has brought lawsuits against Twitter, now known as X, Facebook and Alphabet, as well as their chief executives in July 2021, who claimed that illegal silencing of conservative geeches.
The Trump team considered the lawsuit with X gradually, given the President's close relationship with Musk, who had contributed $ 250 million to Trump's election campaign, the WSJ reported, with reference to people who are familiar with the issue .
But they eventually continued with the settlement, the WSJ reported.
Musk, who leads Tesla, also leads the Ministry of Government Efficiency, a new arm of the White House that is responsible for radically reducing federal bureaucracy.
Trump's lawyers are also expected to pursue a settlement with Google, who forbade Trump from YouTube after the US Capitol Riot 2021, Wsj said.
X and his CEO at the time of the suspension of Trump, Jack Dorsey, as well as Alphabet and the White House did not immediately respond to Reuters's requests for comments.
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