Overview

• According to the filing in federal court, $22 million will go to the Trust for the National Mall to support construction of a White House State Ballroom and $2.5 million will be distributed to other plaintiffs including the American Conservative Union and Naomi Wolf.
• The settlement states there is no admission of liability; Google confirmed the deal and referred inquiries to the court document.
• The payout completes a trio of platform settlements after Meta agreed to roughly $25 million in January and X paid about $10 million in February.
• YouTube suspended Trump’s channel on January 12, 2021 over concerns about potential violence and reinstated the account in March 2023.
• The disclosure arrived in the Northern District of California and comes ahead of an October 6 hearing before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers.