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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumstrmp to receive 24.5 million from youtube for Jan6 suspension
YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle lawsuit over Trumps account suspension after Jan. 6 attackGoogles 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. The remaining $2.5 million will be paid to other parties involved in the case, including the writer Naomi Wolf and the American Conservative Union.
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 as X.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-youtube-google-settlement-january-6-01275f67afed84402fcff0118ce698a5
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trmp to receive 24.5 million from youtube for Jan6 suspension (Original Post)
spanone
Sep 30
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Conjuay
(2,772 posts)1. That money should go to E. Jean Carroll as part of the settlement she was awarded
N/T
spanone
(140,536 posts)2. Fat chance.
That is all
kysrsoze
(6,383 posts)4. He should have gone to prison for Jan 6th. Instead, Google is helping build his ballroom
It's a bribe, pure and simple.
Johnny2X2X
(23,537 posts)5. It's a shake down
This is how he gets his bribes, he sues someone and they settle with him in exchange for favorable treatment.
kentuck
(114,863 posts)6. Extortion.
Period. Full stop.
He is acting like January 6th never happened?
Johonny
(24,956 posts)7. Tech bros turn out to all be wimps
With zero back bone. Surprised?
Qutzupalotl
(15,583 posts)8. Alphabet could have fought it and won.
Capitulation only makes him continue these shakedowns.