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Home Front: Politix
YouTube to pay Trump $24.5 million to settle lawsuit over suspension
2025-09-30
[CNB] YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit involving the suspension of President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
's account following the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.

The settlement ''shall not constitute an admission of liability or fault,'' on behalf of the defendants or related parties, according to a filing on Monday from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Trump sued YouTube, Facebook and Twitter in mid-2021, after the companies suspended his accounts on their platforms over concerns related to the incitement of violence.

Since Trump won a second term in November and returned to the White House in January, the tech companies have been settling their disputes with the president. Facebook-parent Meta said in January that it would pay $25 million to settle its lawsuit with Trump. The following month, Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, agreed to settle its Trump-related case for roughly $10 million.

In August, several Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan expressing their concern over a possible settlement with the president.

The senators said in the letter that they worried such an action would be part of a ''quid-pro-quo arrangement to avoid full accountability for violating federal competition, consumer protection, and labor laws, circumstances that could result in the company running afoul of federal bribery laws.''
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