articleFILE-President Donald Trump calls on a reporter during a cabinet meeting with members of his administration in the Cabinet Room of the White House on August 26, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit President Donald Trump filed after the video sharing platform suspended his account after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
On Jan. 12, 2021, YouTube suspended Trump’s social media channel explaining that his content violated policies against inciting violence, FOX Business reported. But his account has been restored since 2023.
According to court documents obtained by the Associated Press, the settlement allocates $22 million for Trump to contribute to the Trust for the National Mall and a construction of a White House ballroom. The other $2.5 million will be paid to other parties involved in the case, including the writer Naomi Wolf and the American Conservative Union.
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According to the Associated Press, Alphabet, the parent of Google, is the third technology organization to settle lawsuits that President Donald Trump filed for what he alleged had unfairly censored him after his first term as president ended in January 2021.
Trump filed similar lawsuits with Facebook parent Meta Platforms and Twitter before it was purchased by billionaire Elon Musk in 2022 and rebranded as X.
The AP reported that Meta agreed to pay $25 million to settle Trumps’ lawsuit over his 2021 suspension from Facebook and X agreed to settle the lawsuit that the president brought against Twitter for $10 million.
The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Associated Press and FOX Business. This story was reported from Washington, D.C.