YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump and different plaintiffs after he was suspended from the platform in 2021, in response to a court docket submitting.
In accordance with the submitting, $22 million will probably be used to assist Trump’s building of a White Home State Ballroom and will probably be held in a tax-exempt entity referred to as the Belief for the Nationwide Mall.
One other $2.5 million will go to the opposite plaintiffs within the lawsuit — together with the American Conservative Union, Andrew Baggiani, Austen Fletcher, Maryse Veronica Jean-Louis, Frank Valentine, Kelly Victory and Naomi Wolf — in response to the submitting.
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“This Discover of Settlement and Stipulation of Dismissal shall not represent an admission of legal responsibility or fault on the a part of the Defendants or their brokers, servants, or workers, and is entered into by all Events for the only function of compromising disputed claims and avoiding the bills and dangers of additional litigation,” the submitting acknowledged.
A spokesperson for Google, which owns YouTube, referred ABC Information to the discover of settlement when contacted for touch upon Monday.
YouTube suspended Trump’s account following the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, saying on the time that an uploaded video violated its coverage for inciting violence. It restored Trump’s channel greater than two years later, citing that voters might “hear equally from main nationwide candidates within the run-up to an election.”
Trump’s lawsuit alleged that YouTube prevented him from “exercising his constitutional proper of free speech” by banning him indefinitely from the platform.
YouTube is the newest social media firm to conform to settle with Trump this 12 months over the suspension of his accounts following the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.
President Donald Trump arrives for a information convention with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu within the State Eating Room of the White Home, Sept. 29, 2025, in Washington.
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In January, Meta agreed to settle with Trump by making a donation of $22 million to his presidential library and paying $3 million in authorized charges, in response to a letter from Meta’s attorneys.
In February, X agreed to pay about $10 million to settle a lawsuit introduced by Trump, the Wall Avenue Journal reported.
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