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Washington: According to three people familiar with the matter, Meta has agreed to pay $ 25 million to resolve President Donald Trump’s lawsuits filed with the company after he suspended his account attack on January 6, 2021.

This is the latest example of a large company and the president who resolve the lawsuit. The president threatens the retribution of its critics and competitors, and is Mark Zuckerberg, META and its CEO, joined other large technology companies. Expand your administration.

People who are familiar with this matter speak under anonymous conditions on Wednesday and discuss the agreement. The two people in the agreement said the terms of the agreement include $ 22 million to non -profit organizations, which will become Trump’s future presidential library. They said the balance will pay legal costs and other litigants.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the settlement.

Zuckerberg visited Trump at his private Florida Club in November to try to repair it with the upcoming president. This was other technologies and government officials. It is said that at the dinner, Trump filed a lawsuit and suggested that they tried to resolve the lawsuit and conducted two months of negotiation between the two parties.

Meta also donated $ 1 million to Trump’s inauguration committee.

Prior to Trump’s inauguration, Meta announced that it would give up the facts on his platform to check, which was a long -term priority of Trump to popularize his allies.

Trump filed a lawsuit a few months after the end of his term, saying that the actions of social media companies “illegally conducted illegal and shameful review systems for the American people.”

Twitter, Facebook and Google are all private companies, and users must agree to use their products’ service terms. According to Article 230 of the “Communication model” Act 1996, social media platforms can adjust their services by deleting posts such as obscene or violating their own standards, as long as they act with “honesty”. The law is usually exempted from the responsibility of Internet companies to materials released by users.

However, Trump and some other politicians have long believed that X, Facebook and other social media platforms have abused this protection, which should lose immunity or reduce it at least.

In the case of ABC News, it agreed to pay 15 million US dollars to the Presidential Library of Trump last month, this component solution was paid in the slanderous lawsuit of George Stephanopoulos, the host. Inaccurate air assertion, the president was found to be responsible for rape E. Jean Carroll E. Jean Carroll responsibility. Essence

The network also agreed to pay a legal fee of $ 1 million to a law firm in Trump’s lawyer Alejandro Brito.

The reconciliation agreement describes the ABC Presidential Library as “charity donation” and specifies the designated funds for the non -profit organization established with the unrelated library.

The president has been arguing that his goal is the unfair report of traditional media companies.

Trump has filed a lawsuit against the CBS news, saying that the network conducted a misleading interview with his 2024 opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, which was “60 minutes” and the plan constituted ” Party factions and illegal elections and voting behaviors are designed to “mislead the public and try to tilt to scales.” The plan rejected the claim.

He filed a lawsuit against the news media’s parent company Gannett, and Ann Selzer, a public opinion tester of the Iowa newspaper, claimed that they violated the “Iowa State “Consumer Fraud Law”, the bill released a public opinion survey before election in November, which greatly underestimated his support for him. nation. Paper and Ceze denied illegal behavior.