Meta agreed to pay $25 million to settle Donald Trump's lawsuit over the company's 2021 suspension of his Facebook and Instagram accounts,

Meta Platforms (META), the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Threads and other brands, is scheduled to report fourth

This month, Zuckerberg also announced that Meta will shut down its third-party fact-checking teams in an effort to “restore free expression” to its social media platforms. He justified the move by saying that many of the fact checkers had shown too much political bias and “destroyed more trust than they’ve created.”

The suit was brought after Facebook, among other social media platforms, suspended Trump's account following the Jan. 6 insurrection that attempted to overthrow the 2020 election.

Most U.S. stocks are ticking higher following a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% in Thursday morning trading. The