X pays millions to Trump: the scandalous comparison!

X pays millions to Trump: the scandalous comparison!

In a spectacular turn, the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, apparently reached an agreement with the former US President Donald Trump. According to reports, the company is willing to pay around ten million dollars to enclose a legal dispute that results from the blocking of Trump's user account after the attack on the US capitol in January 2021. This information was confirmed by Wall Street Journal . This means that X is the second platform next to Facebook mother Meta, which has assured the former president compensation. Meta had already announced in January to pay $ 25 million to settle a similar conflict.

Details on the legal dispute and Trump’s account lock

Trump filed a lawsuit against the big platforms Twitter, Facebook and Alphabet. He claimed that his conservative views were illegally censored. While Twitter was successful in the first instance, Trump had to present his arguments in an appeal procedure in autumn 2023, where the judges met with skepticism. In the meantime, however, Trump has withdrawn the application for appeal, which accelerated the agreement with X. After the attack on the Capitol, in which Trump had founded his supporters with false claims to the uprising, his accounts were blocked on several platforms, which he described as an attack on freedom of speech, as well as Tagesschau reported.

The return to the platform was only made possible after take over by Elon Musk in 2022, who sees Trump as close confidants. Musk has invested immense sums in Trump's election campaign in recent years and one of his new tasks is to increase government efficiency. This obvious approach between Tech leadership personality and Trump is also evident in public appearances, where Musk and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can be seen near Trump-a sign of a possible cooperative future in US politics and the technology industry.