Google will pay 24.5 million dollars. The United States, in order to resolve the legal dispute with US President Donald Trump, putting an end to a long legal battle.
This is becoming the last American technical company that regulated legal disputes with Trump, which were launched after the US Capitol in January 2021, where Trump suggested censorship when his accounts were prohibited. Claims against Facebook and X (Previously Twitter) have already been settled for 10 million dollars and $ 25 million, respectively.
Trump's claim against YouTube was that this amounted to legal censorship when it was blocked from the publication on its YouTube channel after riots in the Capitol.
According to Bloomberg The report, John Cowal, Trump's lawyer, said: “I am happy, the president is glad to decide.”
Cole said Wall Street Journal: “If [Trump] If we had not been re -elected, we would be in court for 1000 years. ”
Settlement occurs at a time when Google is involved in antimonopoly battles with the US government.
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In August, US senators revealed their fears about settlements between Trump and technical firms, which, according to them, “look like payments to President Trump.”
IN a letter sent in August For the General Directors of Google and YouTube Sundar Pichai and Neal Mohan, the US senators expressed concern about the settlements between Trump and social networks X and Facebook.
Senators wrote: “We write about the possibility that the subsidiary of Google YouTube can prepare for the settlement of the dubious trial filed by President Trump, in exchange for the beneficial effect of its administration. We criticized the actions of other corporations that look like payments to President Trump, and now we are concerned that Google can use similar behavior. ”
According to reports, $ 22 million. The United States of Trump Settlement with Google/YouTube will go to the construction of a new ballroom in the White House, and the rest will go to Trump's colleagues.
Since the restoration of the presidency, Trump has caused uncertainty in the global technological sector using solutions, including disputed tariffs And Cut for cybersecurityThe field in August, the Trump government announced 100% of the tariffs for semiconductors imported in the USAIf only firms carry significant obligations to create production in the United States.
Meanwhile, the USA Cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency (CISA) will probably significantly reduce its financing with a significant reduction in employees, according to budget proposals Presented by the Trump administrationField
In a written statement, the White House said that Trump was “Laser -oriented laser to eliminate … armed rotIn the American government, he outlined a series of abbreviations for several agencies.
“The budget excludes CISA disinformation offices and programs that functioned as a center in the industrial complex of censorship, having conspired with the rights of the first amendment of President Trump and his supporters,” the statement said.
