YouTube pays 24.5 million dollars to settle the Trump censorship suit

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YouTube agreed to pay $ 24.5 million to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump against the video hosting platform after he prevented him from publishing the content after the 2021 attack on the American Capitol.

The website, owned by Google Mother Alphabet, will pay $ 22 million from the settlement to Trust for the National Mall, a non -profit organization that helps fund a new $ 200 million White House celebration hallAccording to the court on Monday.

The remaining $ 2.5 million will be paid to other prosecutors, including the Conservative American Federation and writer Naomi Wolf.

This is the latest batch of social media companies yet Filed a lawsuit against the president Platforms and heads of executives on “illegal control” of American citizens.

In January, Meta paid $ 25 million to settle a lawsuit after Trump banned at least two years after riots 2021, as the money is heading towards his presidential library. Twitter, which is now called X and owned by Elon Musk, has paid $ 10 million after a month.

The ban on Trump was lifted on YouTube – the imposed because some videos are the violation of its policies against incitement to violence – and its channel was restored in March 2023.

The settlement comes amid a broader decline in moderation policies in YouTube. Last week, the platform said it would look Cancel the ban On the novels of some of those accused of publishing wrong information about Covid-19.

The alphabet refused to comment.

Trump and Maga activists have long looked at the large technique with doubt. They have been accused Social media To suppress conservative votes and swinging elections in favor of the Democratic Party.

The CEO including Google Sundar Pichai and Meta from Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook of Apple have assembled Trump since his re -election, in an effort to avoid confrontation with the president and secure favorable deals on everything from the anti -monopoly application to customs tariff points.

Executive chiefs were sitting prominently in Trump’s inauguration I disturb him with praise Earlier this month at a dinner party to promote the initiative of artificial intelligence from the first lady Melania Trump.

Google has lost three monopolies monopoly cases in the United States against search, advertising and application store companies. While they survived the most severe treatments in the research trial, the Ministry of Justice asked the judge to compel the company to sell its advertising unit in a Listen on the way In Virginia.

The media companies targeted by Trump also decided to stabilize rather than bearing the anger of the president, especially while following up deals that the organizational bodies can withstand or reject.

In July, Paramount He paid 16 million dollars To end a $ 20 billion defamation lawsuit against CBS News. Trump claimed 60 minutes The news program distorted it by editing part of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris at the time intentionally deceptive.

At that time, Paramount and Skydance were in integration talks and later in the same month, the Federal Communications Committee agreed to the deal. Paramount skydance now Preparing a display To buy Warner Bruce Discovery, the Financial Times reported.

In December, The Disney -owned ABC paid $ 15 million To the Trump presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit after an anchor said on the air that the president had been found “responsible for rape”, when he was actually found in a civil case for sexual assault.