YouTube agreed to pay $ 24.5 million (18.1 million pounds sterling) to settle a trial brought by Donald Trump after having prohibited his account after the riot of the Capitol of January 6.
The American president was suspended from the platform belonging to Google on his role in the insurrection, who saw his supporters trying to stop Joe Biden’s electoral victory in 2020 to be ratified.
More than four years after the violent scenes who left a dead police officerThe court documents filed on Monday revealed that $ 22 million (16.3 million pounds sterling) of the colony would be to a trust center for the National Shopping Center in Washington DC and the construction of a ballroom in the White House.
The rest will be paid to other parties involved in the case, including the American Conservative Union.
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Google refused to comment on the reasons for the regulation, which does not constitute an admission of responsibility.
Mr. Trump’s Youtube account has been back online since 2023.
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The mother company of Google Alphabet is the third technological company to settle with Mr. Trump on what he perceived as an illegitimate muzzle of him online after the riot.
He was also suspended from Meta and Twitter platforms, movements that saw him gravitate towards his own social media platform – Truth Social.
The president and his supporters falsely argued that the 2020 elections were stolen.
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META – Who owns Facebook and Instagram – agreed to pay $ 25 million (18.6 million pounds sterling) to settle Mr. Trump’s trial, and X (which Twitter became after being bought by Elon Musk in 2022) was satisfied with $ 10 million (7.4 million pounds sterling).
Alphabet boss Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg de Meta and Musk all attended the inauguration of Mr. Trump this year, the latter having been a key contributor to his electoral campaign in 2024.
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