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Trump obtains another settlement if YouTube agrees to pay $ 24.5 million

    Google owner Alphabet today agreed to pay $ 24.5 million to arrange a lawsuit that President Trump brought against YouTube in 2021. Trump has sued youtube due to his account suspended after the 6 January attack from Trump on the American Capitol.

    Alphabet agreed to pay $ 22 million “to settle down and resolve with claimant Donald J. Trump … whom he has instructed to be contributed to the Trust for the National Mall, a 501 (C) (3) tax -free entity on the Restoring, Storage of the National Shopping Hall,” A elevation of the National Winkelt, “a tax -free entity. Trump recently announced plans for the Balzaal of 90,000 square feet.

    The settlement message, which was submitted today in the American court for the Northern district of California, said that Alphabet will also pay $ 2.5 million to arrange claims with claimants De American Conservative Union, Andrew Baggiani, Austen Fletcher, Mary Victore, Frank Valentine, Frank Valentine. According to the settlement, Alphabet does not admit misconduct and the parties agreed to reject the case.

    When Ars is contacted today by Ars, Google said it would not comment than what is at the court. Trump was suspended from large social media platforms after the attack of January 6, 2021, and was subsequently dropped off by the House of Representatives due to insistence of uprising.

    Meta decided in January of this year a similar lawsuit and agreed to pay $ 25 million in general, including $ 22 million in the direction of Trump's presidential library. In February the X of Elon Musk agreed with a settlement of $ 10 million.

    “Google leaders wanted to keep their scheme smaller than those paid by rival meta, according to people who are familiar with the business,” wrote the Wall Street Journal today.