YouTube will pay $24.5 million to Trump for suspension of his account after 2021 riots

Washington.- YouTube agreed this Monday to pay 24.5 million dollars to settle a lawsuit filed by the president of United States, Donald Trump, after the suspension of his account in January 2021 following the assault on the Capitol of the United States.

From the total agreement announced by the video platform, 22 million dollars will be allocated by Trump to the organization Trust for the National Mall, in order to finance the construction of a new ballroom at the White House.

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The remaining 2.5 million will be distributed among other plaintiffs who also accused YouTube of censorship. YouTube’s suspension of Trump’s account, which did not specify which rules had been violated, was justified by “concerns about potential ongoing violence.” In 2023, Trump’s YouTube profile was restored after being blocked longer than his suspended accounts on other social media platforms like Meta and X following the January 6, 2021, Capitol assault. This agreement is part of a series of similar resolutions reached this year with Meta and X, which paid 25 million and 10 million dollars, respectively, to resolve litigation related to content moderation. YouTube did not admit liability in the agreement, which ends the lawsuit filed by Trump following the suspension of his account.