Google’s YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump over his 2021 account suspension following the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
In accordance with paperwork filed in federal court docket in California, $22 million of the settlement might be contributed to the Belief for the Nationwide Mall and the remainder will go to different plaintiffs, together with the American Conservative Union.
Google is the most recent large tech firm to settle lawsuits introduced by Trump. In January, Meta Platforms agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit over his 2021 suspension from Fb. Elon Musk’s X agreed to settle a similar lawsuit introduced in opposition to the corporate then referred to as Twitter for $10 million.
The settlement doesn’t represent an admission of legal responsibility, the submitting says. Google confirmed the settlement however declined to remark past it.
The disclosure of the settlement got here per week earlier than a scheduled Oct. 6 court docket listening to to debate the case with U.S. District Choose Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers in Oakland, California.
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