YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle Trump lawsuit

[iemanja]

Source: CNN

YouTube agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump after he was suspended by social media platforms following the January 6, 2021, insurrection.

This makes Alphabet-owned YouTube the last of the three Big Tech social media companies sued by Trump — which included Meta and then Twitter, now called X — to settle over his removal from their platforms.

YouTube will pay $22 million to settle the claims made by Trump to the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall, which is “dedicated to restoring, preserving, and elevating the National Mall, to support the construction of the White House State Ballroom,” according to a court document.

The social media company will also pay $2.5 million to settle with other plaintiffs, such as the nonprofit American Conservative Union.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/youtube-to-pay-24-5-million-to-settle-trump-lawsuit/ar-AA1NxLd5?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=68db1b12c1d54a9eaa1ce40ee7603914&ei=9

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I don't know if this was a legitimate lawsuit and if the company is just caving or if Trump had a real case.

[LoisB]

1. This POS is really lining his pockets. Can anyone say extortion?

[RainCaster]

2. Google should not be giving up their lunch money

Sucking duck to the world's biggest bully.

[iemanja]

8. YouTube

Does Google own You Tube?

[IcyPeas]

3. I'll never understand. These tech corporations have hundreds of lawyers working for them

Why do they all give in instead of telling trump to pound sand.

[msongs]

4. private business, should be allowed to ban whomever they choose and suffer any consequences nt

[MichMan]

7. I would say that paying $24.5 million in a settlement were consequences

[sinkingfeeling]

5. This is his 'voluntary donations' that are paying to add that terrible, useless ballroom to our once dignified White

House.

[catrose]

6. Why do they do this?

[pat_k]

9. IDK, but it's infuriating, disheartening, depressing, stress-inducing. Perhaps...

... citizens can unite and sue all these cowering companies that are bending the knee for inflicting emotional pain and suffering by supporting this criminal regime.

Aren't we suffering enough? We don't need these guys giving the man more cudgels to bully and beat us with.

[mdbl]

10. Very stupid move.