YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle lawsuit over Trump’s account suspension after Jan. 6 attack
YouTube from Google agreed to pay $ 24.5 million to pay legal action that Donald Trump president brought after the video site suspended his account after the attacks on January 6, 2021 against the Capitol following the elections that led him to leave the White House for four years.
The regulation of the case over four years over four years was $ 22 million in Trump to contribute to the National Mall trust and the construction of a ballroom in the White House, according to court documents deposited on Monday. The remaining $ 2.5 million will be paid to other parties involved in the case, including the writer Naomi Wolf and the American Conservative Union.
Alphabet, the parent of Google, is the third major technological company to settle a volley of prosecution that Trump brought for what he allegedly allegedly muzzled after his first mandate as president ended in January 2021. He filed similar cases Facebook Meta Platforms and Twitter before he was bought by billionaire Elon Musk in 2022 and criticized for X.
Meta agreed to pay $ 25 million to settle the trial of Trumps on its suspension in 2021 of Facebook and X agreed to settle the trial that Trump brought against Twitter for $ 10 million. When the proceedings against Meta. Twitter and YouTube were deposited, legal experts predicted that Trump was unlikely to prevail.
After buying Twitter for $ 44.5 billion, Musk later became a major contributor to the 2024 successful Trump campaign who resulted in his re -election, then spent several months leading a cost reduction effort which served thousands of workers in the wage bill of the federal government before the two ended. The CEO of Alphabet Sundar Pichai and the Meta-PDG Mark Zuckerberg were one of the technology leaders who aligned themselves behind Trump during his second inauguration in January in a demonstration of solidarity which was largely interpreted as a sign of the intention of the industry to work more closely with the president than during his first administration.
ABC News, on the other hand, agreed to pay $ 15 million in December for the Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation trial on the anchoring of the George Stephanopoulos anchoring to assert from the air that the elected president had been deemed civilly responsible for the violation of the writer E. Jean Carroll. And in July, Paramount decided to pay $ 16 million in Trump to pay legal action concerning the edition in the “60 -minute” information program of CBS.
The regulation does not constitute a responsibility admission, indicates the file. Google confirmed the rules but refused to comment beyond.
Google has refused to comment on the reasons for the regulation., But Trump’s YouTube account has been restored since 2023. The payment is barely alphabet, which has a market value of almost 3 dollars – an increase of about 600 billion dollars, or 25%, since Trump’s return to the White House.
The disclosure of the regulations occurred a week before a planned hearing of the October 6 court to discuss the case with the American district judge Yvonne Gonzalez in Oakland, California.
