{"id":4833,"date":"2025-02-13T00:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/trump-to-pay-10m-to-settle-twitter-suspension-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T00:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:11:15","slug":"trump-to-pay-10m-to-settle-twitter-suspension-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/trump-to-pay-10m-to-settle-twitter-suspension-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to Pay $10M to Settle Twitter Suspension Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<p>Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Over 2021 Twitter Suspension<\/p>\n<p><strong>X and President Trump Reach Agreement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>X, the Elon Musk-owned company, has agreed to pay &quot;about $10 million&quot; to settle a long-running lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over his suspension from Twitter in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background of the Lawsuit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump first announced the lawsuit more than three years ago, along with Meta and YouTube, after the companies removed him from their platforms following the January 6, 2021 riots. Trump&#8217;s lawyers claimed that the suspensions were a violation of his First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit against Twitter was initially dismissed by a judge in 2022, but Trump&#8217;s lawyers appealed the decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Settlements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>X&#8217;s settlement comes shortly after Meta reached an agreement with Trump, in which the company will pay $25 million, most of which will go towards building Trump&#8217;s presidential library. Trump&#8217;s lawyers are also expected to pursue a settlement with Google.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Circumstances<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The settlement is significant due to Elon Musk&#8217;s close relationship with Trump. Musk reinstated Trump&#8217;s Twitter account soon after taking over X in 2022 and spent at least $250 million on Trump&#8217;s campaign in 2024. Trump&#8217;s lawyers reportedly considered letting the lawsuit fizzle out before the settlement was reached.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Controversy Surrounding Elon Musk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since taking office less than a month ago, Musk has been using his position to influence the federal government, implementing a series of moves that have sparked concerns about a constitutional crisis.<\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/social-media\/x-will-pay-about-10-million-to-settle-lawsuit-over-donald-trumps-twitter-suspension-234757817.html?src=rss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Over 2021 Twitter Suspension X and President Trump Reach Agreement X, the Elon Musk-owned company, has agreed to pay &quot;about $10 million&quot; to settle a long-running&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[135,176,64,63,514,771],"class_list":["post-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-elon-musk","tag-gear","tag-news","tag-twitter","tag-x-corp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/ebf83db0-e998-11ef-b79e-2b0176377919.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}