Overview

• Alphabet will pay $24.5 million to resolve the 2021 case, with YouTube denying wrongdoing and making no changes to its products or policies.
• $22 million is earmarked for the Trust for the National Mall to support a White House ballroom project, with about $2.5 million going to other plaintiffs including the American Conservative Union and Naomi Wolf.
• The agreement makes Google the last of the three major platforms to settle Trump’s suits, after Meta paid about $25 million and X paid roughly $10 million earlier this year.
• Trump’s YouTube channel was suspended following the January 6 Capitol attack and was reactivated in 2023.
• Trump hailed the outcome as a “massive victory,” but the case closes without establishing a legal precedent on platform suspensions.