Elon Musk X’s social network (ex-Twitter) agreed with American president Donald Trump, which he will compensate for ten million dollars for having suspended his account in 2021, reported on Wednesday February 12 on Wednesday February 12 Wall Street Journal.
Twitter had frozen the Republican billionaire a few hours after the Capitol attack in Washington on January 6, considering that Donald Trump had prompted the demonstrators to take action. “After examining the recent tweets of the @REALDONALDTRUMP account and the context that surrounds them – in particular how they are received and interpreted on Twitter and outside – we have definitively suspended due to the risk of additional incitement to violence, “had justified the company.
This suspension will have lasted almost two years, before Elon Musk, who became the majority shareholder of Twitter, raised it, in November 2022. In the meantime, Donald Trump had assigned Twitter to court as well as his leader of the time, Jack Jack Dorsey, who has since left the group. Dismissed at first instance, he called in 2022.
During the last presidential campaign, Elon Musk got closer to the Republican candidate, devoting 277 million dollars of his personal fortune to support the former property developer.
Donald Trump also compensated by Meta
According to the Wall Street JournalTrump lawyers initially planned to abandon the procedure without compensation, before finally deciding to make an amicable agreement with X. Solicited by AFP, the social network did not follow up immediately.
In a decision rendered on Monday, a federal court of appeal had accessed the request of Donald Trump lawyers to end legal action. At the end of January, Meta had also agreed to compensate the American president, up to $ 25 million, for having suspended his account on the Facebook social network in 2021. Since last year, most large groups Technologies seek to spare their relations with Donald Trump, who notably invited several bosses of the sector to his inauguration ceremony in January.
According to Wsj Still, Donald Trump’s lawyers should also seek to conclude an agreement with Googlewho banned the US President of Youtube after the riot at the Capitol.