Google YouTube agreed to pay $ 24.5 million. The United States to resolve the trial submitted by US President Donald Trump after the video platform suspended his account after January 6, 2021, an attack on the Capitol of the United States.
The settlement of the case, which lasted for more than four years, in accordance with the court documents submitted on Monday, $ 22 million in order to contribute to the national shopping center and the construction of the ballroom ballroom. The rest will go to other plaintiffs, including the American conservative union.
Google is the last company of a large technology that settles the trials filed by Trump. In January, Meta agreed to pay $ 25 million to settle the lawsuit about its removal from 2021 from Facebook. X Elon Musk agreed to resolve a similar lawsuit excited against the company – then known as Twitter – for 10 million US dollars.
When trials against Meta were filed, Twitter and YouTube were filed, legal experts predicted that Trump had little chance of predominance.
Settlement on YouTube is not a recognition of responsibility, the statement said. Google confirmed the settlement, but refused to comment beyond its borders.
Trump's account on YouTube has been restored since 2023. Settlement is unlikely to affect the Motherland of Google, Alphabet, which has a market value by almost 3 trillion US dollars – an increase of about $ 600 billion, or 25 percent, since Trump returns to the White House.
The disclosure of settlement occurred a week before the planned court hearing on October 6 to discuss the case with the District Judge of the United States Ivonn Gonzalez-Corodes in Auckland, California.
