YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5 million settlement

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

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

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