YOUTUBE to Pay $24.5M to Settle Lawsuit Brought by Trump


YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump over his suspension from the platform following the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.

According to a filing in federal court in Oakland, Alphabet-owned YouTube will pay $22 million to the Trust for the National Mall, to be used for the construction of a White House state ballroom, one of Trump’s pet projects since returning to office. Another $2.5 million will go to other plaintiffs, including American Conservative Union, Andrew Baggiani, Austen Fletcher, Maryse Veronica Jean-Louis, Frank Valentine, Kelly Victory and Naomi Wolf.

Trump has extracted settlements from other platforms that suspended his accounts, including Meta’s Facebook and Instagram and Twitter, now X.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/youtube-pay-24-5-million-221648058.html
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/youtube-to-pay-24-5-million-to-settle-lawsuit-brought-by-trump-808f6823

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