"Google's YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit President Donald Trump brought after the video site suspended his account following the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the Capitol following the election that resulted in him leaving the White House for four years.The settlement of the more than four-year-old case earmarks $22 million for Trump to contribute to the Trust for the National Mall and a construction of a White House ballroom, according to court documents filed Monday."
"Alphabet, the parent of Google, is the third major technology company to settle a volley of lawsuits that Trump brought for what he alleged had unfairly muzzled him after his first term as president ended in January 2021. He filed similar cases Facebook parent Meta Platforms and Twitter before it was bought by billionaire Elon Musk in 2022 and rebranded"
YouTube and parent company Alphabet agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit by Donald Trump over his account suspension after the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attacks. The settlement allocates $22 million for contributions to the Trust for the National Mall and construction of a White House ballroom, and $2.5 million to other plaintiffs including Naomi Wolf and the American Conservative Union. Alphabet became the third major tech firm to settle similar suits, following Meta's $25 million and X's $10 million agreements. Legal experts initially judged Trump's chances of prevailing as slim, and tech leaders displayed public alignment with Trump during his second inauguration.
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