YouTube To Pay $24.5 Million To Settle Donald Trump’s Lawsuit Over Account Suspension

YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump over his suspension from the platform following the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.

According to a filing in federal court in Oakland, Alphabet-owned YouTube will pay $22 million to the Trust for the National Mall, to be used for the construction of a White House state ballroom, one of Trump’s pet projects since returning to office. Another $2.5 million will go to other plaintiffs, including American Conservative Union, Andrew Baggiani, Austen Fletcher, Maryse Veronica Jean-Louis, Frank Valentine, Kelly Victory and Naomi Wolf.

Trump has extracted settlements from other platforms that suspended his accounts, including Meta’s Facebook and Instagram and Twitter, now X.