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YouTube to pay $22 million to settle Trump lawsuit over '21 Capitol riot
Khaleej Times
|October 01, 2025
The online video platform is the latest Big Tech firm to settle with the president after suspending his account in the wake of the Jan 6 attack
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Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.
(AFP FILE)
YouTube has agreed to pay $22 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump after the company suspended his account over the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, according to a court filing on Monday.
The online video platform, a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, is the latest Big Tech firm to settle with Trump after he lodged legal cases challenging his broad deplatforming after January 6.
The $22 million will go towards Trump's latest construction project at the White House, through a nonprofit called Trust for the National Mall, which is "dedicated to restoring, preserving, and elevating the National Mall, to support the construction of the White House State Ballroom," per a notice of settlement filing in a California federal court.
Besides the $22 million to Trump's ballroom venture, YouTube agreed to payments of $2.5 million to a host of other Trump allies, including the American Conservative Union.
This story is from the October 01, 2025 edition of Khaleej Times.
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