Overview

• Alphabet’s filing details a $24.5 million settlement over Trump’s 2021 YouTube suspension, with no admission of liability and no further comment from the company.
• $22 million will be directed, at Trump’s instruction, to the Trust for the National Mall to support construction of a White House State Ballroom, and $2.5 million will go to other plaintiffs.
• The agreement makes YouTube the last major platform to resolve Trump’s deplatforming litigation, following Meta’s roughly $25 million deal in January and X’s about $10 million in February.
• YouTube suspended Trump’s channel on Jan. 12, 2021 citing concerns about potential violence, and later restored the account in 2023 after policy shifts across platforms.
• Other plaintiffs receiving funds include the American Conservative Union and writer Naomi Wolf, as the settlement caps a broader trend of tech firms opting to settle rather than litigate to a ruling.