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YouTube settles

YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle lawsuit brought by Trump

SUMMARY

YouTube, owned by Alphabet’s Google, settled a 2021 lawsuit with Trump for $24.5 million over his post-Jan. 6 account suspension. Trump’s $22 million share funds a Mar-a-Lago-style White House ballroom via the Trust for the National Mall, backed by “patriot donors.” The remaining $2.5 million goes to plaintiffs like the American Conservative Union and Naomi Wolf.

Google kept the payout below Meta’s $25 million, per insiders. Trump’s lawyer Coale stated, “If he had not been re-elected, we would have been in court for 1,000 years.”


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