US President Donald Trump has signed a legal reconciliation for Facebook and Instagram owner Meta to pay about $ 25 million.
After the Capitol riot on January 6 of that year, Trump sued the Social Media giant and its highest executive, Mark Zuckerberg, in 2021, in 2021.
In July 2024, Meta unlocked the final restriction of Trump’s Facebook and Instagram account, until the US presidential election.
The settlement was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Approximately 22 million dollars will be sent to the Fund of President Trump’s Library.
The balance is used to cover the legal expenses and other plaintiffs signed by the lawsuit. Meta does not accept fraud.
The company stopped his Trump account in 2021 and banned him from the platform for at least two years.
After winning the Trump election in November, Zuckerberg visited the Florida resort, Marrago. This movement was once considered evidence of clear thawing in a cold relationship.
The following month, Meta donated $ 1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. Zuckerberg was a guest of Trump’s inauguration at the US Council early this month.
For many years, Trump was very critical of Zuckerberg and Facebook, and in 2017 he called the platform “anti -Trump”.
Their relationship became even sour after the president’s account was banned. He called Facebook in March 2024 “the enemy of the people.”
Under the name X, Twitter, owned by Trump’s Allies Elon Musk, has stopped the “permanent” president from the platform.
After purchasing a company for $ 44 billion, Musk revived his Trump account in 2022.
On Wednesday, Meta defended $ 65 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) after the sudden rise of the Chinese AI app Deepseek was shaken.
Zuckerberg told investors that there was a lot to learn from Deepseek, but it was too early to get a “really strong opinion on what the app means in the future of AI.
“I think the recent news has just strengthened our belief that this is the right thing to focus on,” he added.
After DeepSeek’s popularity, many US high -tech stocks sank this week.
The shares rose after business hours after posting more financial results on Wednesday.
However, the progress of AI in China has remained questions about what the US AI market means, taking into account the DeepSeek’s claims developed at some costs of rivals in the United States.
Zuckerberg said in a call to investors following the results of Wednesday that Deepseek’s Rise has strengthened his beliefs for his company’s “open source” AI hugging.
Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp’s parent company Meta has tacked a different tack from many US companies by releasing open source AI models for free.
Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that the approach was important to keep the United States at the forefront to become an important player in the world where countries around the world still exist.
“I think it’s important to have an open source standard for global, and it’s important to be American standards for our own national interests,” he said.
“We are serious about it. I want to build the AI system used by people around the world.”
META announced last week that it is planning to spend $ 650 billion this year to expand the AI infrastructure.
On Wednesday, Zuckerberg has continued to discuss how to lead AI investment, but for his company, which provides billions of investors and billions around the world. He said it made sense.
“I bet that the ability to build such infrastructure is a great advantage for both the quality of the service and the fact that we can provide services on the scale we want,” he said. 。
He stated that it would be an important year for other fields, and this year it was the key to judging whether the company would take off as expected.
Zuckerberg says that all glasses will be replaced with smart glass within 10 years.
He also talked about a plan to revive Facebook’s “cultural relationship”. Facebook has launched his property, but has revived the visual acuity of social media that has become favorable compared to other products such as Instagram and Tiktok.
Zuckerberg has also defended his recently announced decision, considering the fact that the community notes plan was more effective.
He stated that the company did not hit the advertiser’s demands as a result of the change.
