YouTube agreed to pay $ 24.5 million. In order to resolve the requirement submitted by US President Donald Trump after it was blocked on social networks after the attack of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
It is reported by CNN.
Thus, YouTube, owned by Google Google Company, became the last of the three large technological companies engaged in social networks against which Trump filed a statement – among them were META, which owned Facebook and Twitter, which are now called X – to solve the problem of its removal from their platforms.
The amount that must be paid consists of:
- 22 million dollars. USA – to regulate Trump’s claims to the insurmountable organization of the organization for the National Trade Center, which “concerns the restoration, preservation and landscape design” of the National Lane (Park and Memorial Complex of Separation in the Washington Center);
- $ 2.5 million. The United States to resolve the claims of other plaintiffs, such as an insurmountable American conservative union.
Previously, Trump has already concluded similar agreements:
- Meta, who in January agreed to resolve Trump’s claim with $ 25 million. Then CNN said that, according to the agreement, 22 million should have been sent to the Fund of Trump’s future presidential library, and the rest of the amount to pay for Trump’s lawyers and other plaintiffs;
- The social network X is an agreement concluded in February, provides for payment of about $ 10 million.
Source: CNN
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