Billionaire Elon Musk's social media platform X, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, has agreed to settle a lawsuit over Twitter (formerly known as X) banning Mr. Trump following the riots at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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| Billionaire Elon Musk, with his son Æ A-12, nicknamed X, appeared next to US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11. (Source: Getty Images) |
X has agreed to pay about $10 million to settle a lawsuit Trump filed against Twitter and former CEO Jack Dorsey to challenge the ban, according to people familiar with the matter.
More than 140 police officers were injured in hours of clashes with pro-Trump protesters, who used flagpoles, baseball bats, hockey sticks and other improvised weapons, along with stun guns and pepper spray.
At that point, Twitter and other social media platforms locked Mr. Trump’s accounts out of concern that he would incite further violence with false claims of voter fraud that led to his defeat to Mr. Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Billionaire Musk later bought Twitter and renamed it X. He restored Mr. Trump’s account on the platform and was a major supporter of Mr. Trump during the recent presidential race. Mr. Trump appointed Mr. Musk to head the newly created Department of Government Efficiency.
In January, Meta agreed to pay Mr. Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed alleging Facebook and Instagram wrongfully censored him after the Capitol riots. Under the settlement, Meta will not admit wrongdoing in suspending Mr. Trump’s accounts.
Mr Trump has been highly critical of social media platforms for suspending his accounts following the January 6, 2021 riots.
After taking office in January, the US President pardoned more than 1,500 of his supporters in the Capitol riots, and ordered the suspension of all pending criminal cases against defendants in the incident.
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