Posted on 09/29/2025 5:11:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Most of the funds will go toward the construction of a $200 million ballroom at the White House. Other companies that have settled lawsuits from Trump include Meta, X and Disney's ABC.
Add YouTube to the list of tech and media companies to settle a lawsuit from President Trump after the start of his second term.
The Alphabet-owned company agreed to pay $24.5 million to resolve a lawsuit over the suspension of Trump’s account following a mob of his supporters attacking the U.S. Capitol in 2021, according to court papers filed on Monday.
Under the deal, $22 million will go toward a trust for the National Mall, the entity handling the construction of a $200 million ballroom at the White House. The remainder is earmarked for other plaintiffs in the case, including the American Conservative Union, Andrew Baggiani, Austen Fletcher, Maryse Veronica Jean-Louis, Frank Valentine, Kelly Victory and Naomi Wolf.
The agreement follows Meta and X earlier this year reaching deals to settle similar lawsuits challenging the suspensions of Trump’s accounts. Combined with settlements from other companies, including Disney’s ABC and Paramount’s CBS News, he’s made at least nearly $90 million, with much of the funds going toward his presidential library.
Trump alleged a violation of the First Amendment. Legal observers have noted that private companies have the right to deplatform individuals and that the tech firms were motivated to settle because of his return to office.
At the time, YouTube maintained that Trump violated its policy over inciting violence. It indefinitely suspended his account, allowing him back onto the platform in 2023 to allow “voters to hear equally from major national candidates in the run-up to an election.” Meta and X also reinstated Trump’s accounts.
A wrinkle in the case: Trump sought a court order of the unconstitutionality of Section 230, Big Tech’s favorite legal shield that has historically afforded companies significant legal protection from liability as third-party publishers. Such a finding could’ve crippled the operations of Google, Meta and X, among various others.
The settlement “shall not constitute an admission of liability or fault on the part” of YouTube, the Monday filing states. Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Wining and more wining......
More Ice Please......
I like that hes putting the money back into the White House.
Is this winning? Or is it just the cost of doing business?
Both Youtube and google AI are still very slanted and biased.
Do a search. Many results are returned. They are all leftist. Word the query to force a rightwing source. That one source will be returned plus a hundred leftist results.
Search WWE, NFL and similar to clear the buffers. Then retry. Same results from both Youtube, google search, google AI.
Until all sides of a topic are presented, we have not won.
Youtube isn’t exactly a beacon of free speech.
They allow Charlie Kirk videos.
Lots more and may it continue.
Yes hopefully they’ll keep doing that. That nothing he has said has gotten banned just shows that the Left lies about him.
“ They allow Charlie Kirk videos.”
That’s mighty white of them.
L
Someone suggested naming wings in his library after the companies that settled.
I’ve been wondering where the money was going.
It’s never been specified in the “news” reports.
That’s true! You have to be creative at times with your writings.
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