Youtube Caves To Trump With $24.5 Million Settlement

YouTube has settled a suit President Donald Trump revenge against nan institution successful 2021, according to The Wall Street Journal. Trump revenge sweeping lawsuits against Google-owned YouTube, Meta (then Facebook) and X (then Twitter) aft he was suspended from nan platforms, and now each 3 companies person settled pinch nan president.

YouTube will salary $24.5 million, pinch $22 cardinal going toward The Trust for nan National Mall nonprofit to thief “support nan building of nan White House State Ballroom,” nan colony archive says, and $2.5 cardinal will spell to different plaintiffs. The afloat colony is somewhat little than nan $25 cardinal Meta agreed to salary in January, and nan WSJ says that Google executives were “eager to support their colony smaller than nan 1 paid by rival Meta.” X settled for astir $10 cardinal in February. 

Trump was suspended from uploading caller videos successful January 2021 aft nan onslaught connected nan Capitol connected January 6th, pinch YouTube citing “concerns astir nan ongoing imaginable for violence.” YouTube lifted nan restrictions successful March 2023, saying that it “carefully evaluated nan continued consequence of real-world violence, while balancing nan chance for voters to perceive arsenic from awesome nationalist candidates successful nan tally up to an election.”