U.S. President Donald Trump reacts, as he arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., September 26, 2025.
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YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit involving the suspension of President Donald Trump’s account following the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.
The settlement “shall not constitute an admission of liability or fault,” on behalf of the defendants or associated events, in accordance to a submitting on Monday from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Trump sued YouTube, Facebook and Twitter in mid-2021, after the businesses suspended his accounts on their platforms over considerations associated to the incitement of violence.
Since Trump gained a second time period in November and returned to the White House in January, the tech corporations have been settling their disputes with the president. Facebook-parent Meta said in January that it might pay $25 million to settle its lawsuit with Trump. The following month, Elon Musk’s X, previously Twitter, agreed to settle its Trump-related case for roughly $10 million.
In August, a number of Democratic senators, together with Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan expressing their concern over a attainable settlement with the president.
The senators stated within the letter that they frightened such an motion could be a part of a “quid-pro-quo arrangement to avoid full accountability for violating federal competition, consumer protection, and labor laws, circumstances that could result in the company running afoul of federal bribery laws.”
