US EditionYouTube to Pay $24.5 Million to End Trump Lawsuit Over Jan. 6 Ban
- YouTube on Monday agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump over his Jan. 6, 2021 account suspension, the federal filing in Oakland, California shows.
- After the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, YouTube suspended Trump’s channel on Jan. 12, 2021, blocking uploads and prompting Trump to sue over First Amendment claims.
- The filing says YouTube will not admit liability under the settlement, with $22 million allocated to the Trust for the National Mall and $2.5 million to other plaintiffs including the American Conservative Union and Naomi Wolf.
- The settlement closes out Trump's suits against major tech firms, making Alphabet the last to settle, and was disclosed a week before the Oct. 6 hearing in Oakland.
- The move follows earlier eight-digit settlements from Meta and X totaling more than $80m, with critics like Eric Goldman calling it "This is straight influence-peddling.
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Following Meta and X, Google parent company Alphabet has also reached a settlement with US President Trump for the suspension of his YouTube account in 2021 after the storming of the Capitol. Trump's account was suspended shortly after the storming on January 6, 2021. Other major tech companies also did the same with the accounts Trump had on their social media platforms. They argued that he had violated their rules by, among other things, not d…
YouTube to settle lawsuit with Trump for banning his account
YouTube was not the only platform to take action against Donald Trump over the deadly riot in Washington DC in 2021 - he was also suspended by Meta and Twitter, now X, before being reinstated several years later.
Many platforms had blocked US President Trump's accounts after the storm of the Capitol in 2021, including YouTube. The President complained - and now agreed with the video portal.
Like Meta, X and several media, the online video platform in turn accepts a financial agreement with the Republican.
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