On January 29, Trump and Meta signed a settlement agreement at the White House, ending a lawsuit after Trump’s account was suspended following the January 6 insurrection that he led.
Meta payed out $25 million. $22 million of that will go to financing Trump’s presidential library, while the remaining $3 million covered legal expenses and other plaintiffs.
Ever since Trump won re-election, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has wasted no time in appeasing Trump. Meta suspended its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, put Trump ally Dana White on its board of directors, elevated Joel Kaplan, a Republican, to be its top policy executive, and ceased removing misinformation and disinformation. Zuckerberg himself attended Trump’s inauguration and donated $1 million to it.
