YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over suspending his account after January 6, 2021, The Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Ballhaus and Annie Linksey report. The Google (GOOGL) subsidiary is the last of three Big Tech companies to resolve personal litigation Trump brought against social-media platforms in the months after he left the White House, with Meta (META) agreeing in January to pay $25M, and X agreeing to pay $10M, according to the report. Trump’s share of the YouTube settlement, $22M, will help fund a Mar-a-Lago-style ballroom at the White House, the report adds.
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