On September 26, 2025, US President Donald Trump responds when he arrives at a joint base in Andrews, Maryland.
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YouTube agreed to pay $24.5 million to resolve a lawsuit, including the suspension of President Donald Trump’s account, following the US Capitol riots on January 6, 2021.
The settlement “does not constitute an acceptance of liability or negligence” on behalf of the defendant or the related party, according to a filing Monday from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Trump sued YouTube, Facebook Twitter in mid-2021 after businesses suspended accounts on the platform regarding concerns related to inciting violence.
Trump won a second term in November and since returning to the White House in January, tech companies have settled disputes with the president. Facebook-Parent Meta said in January it would pay $25 million to resolve the lawsuit with Trump. The following month, Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) agreed to settle the Trump-related lawsuit for around $10 million.
In August, several Democrat senators, including Massachusetts’ Elizabeth Warren, wrote to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, expressing concern about possible settlements with the president.
The senator said in the letter he worried that such measures are part of “a “QUID-PRO-QUO arrangement” to avoid full accountability for violating federal competition, consumer protection and labor laws, circumstances that could violate the federal bribery law.”
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