President Donald Trump settled with Meta Platforms for $25 million after the social media giant suspended his accounts following the January 6, 2021, protests at the US Capitol.
$22 million from the settlement will go to President Trump’s presidential library. The rest will go to legal fees and to fellow plaintiffs who signed on to the case.
Meta did not admit to any wrongdoing in the settlement.
The Wall Street Journal reported that activity on the case after Mark Zuckerberg flew to Mar-a-Lago to dine with President Trump in November after his 2024 election victory.
Apparently, Trump brought up the lawsuit at the end of dinner with Zuckerberg in November. Then in January, Zuckerberg met with President Trump again for a full day of mediation at Mar-a-lago.
Facebook has been censoring conservative voices and the truth from reaching the masses for several years now.
Obviously, this is not the only censorship case Meta is involved in.
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook eliminated up to 93% of traffic to top Pro-Trump websites following the 2016 election.
The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft testified to Congress on the oppressive Facebook policies back in 2018.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported in May 2022 that Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, along with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, filed a lawsuit (Missouri v. Biden) against the Biden Administration, including Biden himself, Anthony Fauci, the Department of Homeland Security, and nearly a dozen federal agencies and Secretaries.
The suit alleges a massive coordinated effort by the Deep State to work with Big Tech to censor and manipulate Americans – from average citizens to news outlets – on issues including the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell, 2020 Election Integrity, COVID-19 origin and extent skepticism, COVID-19 vaccine skepticism, among other issues.
In June 2022, The Gateway Pundit began assisting Missouri AG Schmitt’s team and providing critical evidence of Facebook and Twitter censorship of the Gateway Pundit on all of these issues. The Missouri-Louisiana case was heard before the Supreme Court in 2024. SCOTUS sent it back to the lower court and this case is still ongoing.
Now that President Trump has reentered the White House the censorship industrial complex is on notice. This settlement to President Trump this week by Meta is likely just the beginning. The tech giants and government agents censored and silenced conservatives and independent media in the US for years. Now justice will be served.
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