YouTube will pay Trump $22 million to end lawsuit
The world's most popular video platform removed Trump's accounts after his supporters attacked the Capitol in 2021 and he sued it
YouTube agreed to pay US President Donald Trump $22 million to end a lawsuit over the suspension of his account on the video platform after the 2021 assault on the Capitol, according to a published court document.
The Google subsidiary is the latest platform, after Meta and X, to seal a deal judicial with the Republican president.
Major social media and video sites removed Trump's accounts after his followers attacked the seat of the legislative branch, fearing that he would promote more violence with false claims that Democrat Joe Biden had committed fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Several lawsuits for “censoring his speech”
The 79-year-old Republican filed lawsuits against these companies for censoring his speech.
The money from the agreements sealed by the president and the technology companies will go to a nonprofit called Trust for the National Mall, which is “dedicated to restoring, preserving, and enhancing the National Mall, to support the construction of the White House Ballroom,” according to the document.
X, Elon Musk's social network, reached an agreement in February for around $10 million to close a lawsuit filed by Trump against the company and its former director, Jack Dorsey.
A month earlier, Meta did the same, in this case pledging to pay $25 million, $22 million of which will go toward the creation of a presidential library.
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