Elon Musk agrees to pay $10 million in Donald Trump’s “censorship” lawsuit against X

Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter), has agreed to pay US$ 10 million to settle the lawsuit that Donald Trump filed against the social network.

The lawsuit, filed by the president of the United States in July 2021, claimed that he was being “censored” on the platform after making some controversial posts about the Capitol invasion that occurred in January of that year, just weeks before Joe Biden was inaugurated.

“After a thorough review of the recent tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them, we permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement to violence,” said Twitter about the suspension.

Trump alleged that his comments were unfairly censored, but his account remained suspended until Twitter changed ownership. Now that Elon Musk, a major partner of Trump, is the owner of the company, it seems the issue has been resolved.

Following a recent visit by Musk to the White House, Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter was concluded after the social media company agreed to pay US$ 10 million to settle the case.

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