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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
James Liddell

Musk agrees to pay Trump $10m to settle lawsuit over his Twitter ban in wake of January 6 riot

Elon Musk‘s X has agreed to pay Donald Trump about $10 million to settle a lawsuit after the social media giant banned the president over inflammatory tweets sent during the Jan 6. riots, sources say.

Trump’s legal team filed the suit against the company, which was then called Twitter, and its CEO Jack Dorsey in July 2021 after permanently suspending his account on January 8 that year “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”.

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