Technically true but it's very clear what's going on. The court case was one pretty much everyone agreed Trump would lose. Trump literally told Zuckerberg the court case needed to be resolved if he wanted to get into the inner circle... ta-da, $25m later, it's all gone.
Settling cases even when its clear you are going to win is actually a thing that happens more often than you would think. Sometimes the settlement is cheaper than paying lawyers in a drawn out trial. Not to mention the PR cost.
I suppose, but i don't really see the advantage of doing it as part of the settlement. If zuck wanted to give trump a bribe why not just donate directly?
In addition to what lazide said, this suit was filed in 2021. Zuck didn’t know then that Trump would win the next election or which way public sentiments would change. But now here we are.
Crimes aren't settled. Sometimes cases are dropped and sometimes there are plea bargains with the prosecution, who works for the public and can only do so within the framework of laws that are set out. Civil law exists to settle disputes between two parties, not to punish for some crime. If the two parties reach an out-of-court agreement on why the lawsuit should be dropped, then its dropped.
True, I should have been precise. A plea bargain is somewhat of settlement but it does have to be approved by the judge (most of which is the judge independently making sure the person pleading knows what they're doing).
