U.S. President Donald Trump reacts, arsenic helium arrives astatine Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., September 26, 2025.
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YouTube has agreed to wage $24.5 cardinal to settee a suit involving the suspension of President Donald Trump's relationship pursuing the U.S. Capitol riots connected Jan. 6, 2021.
The colony "shall not represent an admittance of liability oregon fault," connected behalf of the defendants oregon related parties, according to a filing connected Monday from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Trump sued YouTube, Facebook and Twitter successful mid-2021, aft the companies suspended his accounts connected their platforms implicit concerns related to the incitement of violence.
Since Trump won a 2nd word successful November and returned to the White House successful January, the tech companies person been settling their disputes with the president. Facebook-parent Meta said successful January that it would wage $25 cardinal to settee its suit with Trump. The pursuing month, Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, agreed to settle its Trump-related lawsuit for astir $10 million.
In August, respective Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan expressing their interest implicit a imaginable colony with the president.
The senators said successful the missive that they disquieted specified an enactment would beryllium portion of a "quid-pro-quo statement to debar afloat accountability for violating national competition, user protection, and labour laws, circumstances that could effect successful the institution moving afoul of national bribery laws."
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