Zuckerberg paid Trump $25 million

Zuckerberg paid Trump $25 million for blocking Facebook and Instagram accounts in 2021 to settle the lawsuit over this matter. The accounts were blocked following the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters. The deal was the result of direct negotiations between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Trump, according to the president’s attorney John Cole. When asked what led to the settlement of the lawsuit years later, he replied that he had been working on the deal the whole time and added, "Of course, the elections helped."