YouTube is paying $24.5 million to settle the Trump lawsuit. Why?

According to a court on Monday, Youtube agreed to pay 22 million dollars to solve a case opened by US President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, according to the Capitol attack.

The video sharing platform, owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, is the latest largest technology company that settled in Trump after offering legal difficulties by major technology companies after January 6.

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The AFP will go to the National Shopping Center, which is dedicated to restoring, protecting and raising the National Shopping Center in a California Federal Court, Trust will go to Trust’s last construction project in the White House through a non -profit organization called Trust.

A number of other Trump allies, including Youtube and the American Conservative Union, accepted $ 2.5 million payments to Trump’s ballroom initiative.

What was a lawsuit for Youtube?

After January 6, the major platforms have removed Trump that the voter fraud will encourage more violence with allegations that he had lost his loss to Joe Biden in 2020.

The platform prevented Trump from installing new content on January 12, 2021 and pointed out “concerns about the ongoing potential of violence”. The movement came in parallel with the actions that suspended Trump’s ability to send Trump after Facebook and Twitter’s January 6.

The 79 -year -old Republican took social media companies and Youtube to court and claimed that he had been incorrectly censored.

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According to the original July 2021 complaint against Sundar Pichai, Trump’s lawyers, Youtube and Alphabet CEO, he claimed that he started under “non -existent or broad, vague and constantly changing standards”.

Trump’s privileges were wounded in clashes with pro -Trump rebels carrying more than 140 police officers, flag poles, baseball sticks, hockey sticks and other temporary weapons. They wanted to prevent the Congress from approved Biden’s win.

Free speech violation?

Legal experts saw that Trump’s claims against technology giants were at best shaky, and the first change of the US Constitution was not a special actor but withdrawing from restricting the speech.

Youtube “is not a state actor and uses editorial discretion on its private service, does not imply the first rights of the plaintiffs.” He said.

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However, technology and media companies have settled in Trump since they returned to the office because they waited to move from Washington on major issues affecting their business.

The big questions faced by Youtube and Google/Alfabe are an experiment in Virginia, in which a federal court weighed the request of the search engine giant’s advertising technology business to disintegrate.

In February, Elon Musk’s X settled in a Trump case against the company and former General Manager Jack Dorsey for about $ 10 million.

In January, only days after the opening of President Trump, Meta agreed to pay $ 25 million to solve a complaint opened by Trump, and $ 22 million of this amount was determined to finance the future presidential library.

In cases where legal experts thought it was questionable, media companies have reached settlements with Trump. For example, Paramount Global agreed to pay $ 16 million to solve a case against Trump because of an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Trump claimed to have been unjustly organized. This settlement came because Paramount was looking for regulatory approval for the purchase of Skydance.

In July, the Federal Communication Commission approved the seizure of $ 8 billion paramount.

Google refused to comment on the reasons behind the agreement. However, Trump’s Youtube account has been restored since 2023. The $ 22 million settlement has a market value of $ 3 trillion, which has a market value of $ 3 trillion since Trump returns to the White House.

The settlement statement arrived only a week before a court hearing in Oakland in Oakland in California, the US regional judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers on October 6.