X, formerly Twitter, is set to follow in Meta’s footsteps and become the second social media company to settle a Trump lawsuit concerning account suspensions following the Capitol riots.
Elon Musk‘s X has agreed to pay Donald Trump about $10 million to settle a lawsuit after the social media giant banned the president over inflammatory tweets sent during the Jan 6. riots, sources say.
That afternoon, a mob of violent Trump supporters descended on the Capitol contesting the result of the 2020 presidential election after Trump lost to Joe Biden.
Trump’s legal team filed the suit against the company, which was then called Twitter, and its CEO Jack Dorsey in July 2021 after permanently suspending his account on January 8 that year “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”.
After losing the 2020 election, Trump used the platform to spread false reports about voting fraud and to encourage MAGA loyalists to travel to Washington, DC for the “Save America” march at noon on Jan. 6, 2021.
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