X and Meta Scramble to Settle With Trump Facebook’s parent company has reached a $25 million deal with the president, and Elon Musk’s platform says it’s negotiating its own settlement.

The settlement negotiations between Donald Trump and tech companies “raise the question of whether Trump is using his new powers to bully his legal opponents into submission, and whether the litigants are seeking to purchase favor,” @michaelscherer.bsky.social writes.

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Elon Musk’s X Endgame The world’s richest man has become a new kind of oligarch.

To call Elon Musk an oligarch is to understate his influence, writes @alibreland.bsky.social: