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iemanja

(56,815 posts) Mon Sep 29, 2025, 08:54 PM 13 hrs ago

YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle Trump lawsuit

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

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

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YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle Trump lawsuit (Original Post) iemanja 13 hrs ago OP

This POS is really lining his pockets. Can anyone say extortion? LoisB 13 hrs ago #1

Google should not be giving up their lunch money RainCaster 13 hrs ago #2

YouTube iemanja 10 hrs ago #8

I'll never understand. These tech corporations have hundreds of lawyers working for them IcyPeas 13 hrs ago #3

private business, should be allowed to ban whomever they choose and suffer any consequences nt msongs 13 hrs ago #4

I would say that paying $24.5 million in a settlement were consequences MichMan 11 hrs ago #7

This is his 'voluntary donations' that are paying to add that terrible, useless ballroom to our once dignified White sinkingfeeling 13 hrs ago #5

Why do they do this? catrose 12 hrs ago #6

IDK, but it's infuriating, disheartening, depressing, stress-inducing. Perhaps... pat_k 8 hrs ago #9

LoisB

(11,718 posts)

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

Reply to iemanja (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 08:58 PM

13 hrs ago

RainCaster

(13,136 posts)

2. Google should not be giving up their lunch money

Reply to iemanja (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 09:21 PM

13 hrs ago

Sucking duck to the world's biggest bully.

iemanja

(56,815 posts)

8. YouTube

Reply to RainCaster (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 11:49 PM

10 hrs ago

Does Google own You Tube?

IcyPeas

(24,303 posts)

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

Reply to iemanja (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 09:22 PM

13 hrs ago

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

msongs

(72,519 posts)

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

Reply to IcyPeas (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 09:30 PM

13 hrs ago

MichMan

(16,010 posts)

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

Reply to msongs (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:54 PM

11 hrs ago

sinkingfeeling

(56,450 posts)

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

Reply to iemanja (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 09:37 PM

13 hrs ago

House.

catrose

(5,306 posts)

6. Why do they do this?

Reply to iemanja (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:17 PM

12 hrs ago

pat_k

(11,916 posts)

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

Reply to catrose (Reply #6)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 02:01 AM

8 hrs ago

... 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.

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