U.S. President Donald Trump reacts, as he arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., September 26, 2025.
Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters
YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit involving the suspension of President Donald Trump’s account following the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.
The settlement “shall not represent an admission of legal responsibility or fault,” on behalf of the defendants or associated events, in accordance with a submitting on Monday from the U.S. District Court docket for the Northern District of California.
Trump sued YouTube, Fb and Twitter in mid-2021, after the businesses suspended his accounts on their platforms over considerations associated to the incitement of violence.
Since Trump received a second time period in November and returned to the White Home in January, the tech firms have been settling their disputes with the president. Fb-parent Meta stated in January that it will pay $25 million to settle its lawsuit with Trump. The next month, Elon Musk’s X, previously Twitter, agreed to settle its Trump-related case for roughly $10 million.
In August, a number of Democratic senators, together with Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, despatched a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan expressing their concern over a attainable settlement with the president.
The senators stated within the letter that they fearful such an motion could be a part of a “quid-pro-quo association to keep away from full accountability for violating federal competitors, shopper safety, and labor legal guidelines, circumstances that might outcome within the firm operating afoul of federal bribery legal guidelines.”
WATCH: President Trump indicators TikTok deal.
