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Cecilia Nowell

X to pay Donald Trump $10m to settle lawsuit over Capitol attack – report

Police and pro-Trump supporters
Supporters of Donald Trump at the Capitol on January 6 2021. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters

Elon Musk’s social media platform X will pay Donald Trump $10m to settle a lawsuit the president filed after he was banned from the platform following the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, according to a report.

The lawsuit was filed against X under the leadership of its previous CEO, Jack Dorsey. After Musk purchased X, reinstated Trump’s account, began developing a relationship with the president and spent $250m on his re-election campaign, Trump’s legal team considered abandoning the lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the case.

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