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YouTube agrees to pay $24.5 million to the US president To Donald Trump to settle a lawsuit over the blocking of his account after the storming of the Capitol in January 2021. About writes CNBC.

According to a statement from the U.S. District Court for Northern California, the settlement agreement does not constitute an admission of guilt or liability by YouTube or its affiliates.

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Trump filed lawsuits against YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter in 2021, when his pages were blocked over allegations of incitement to violence as his supporters stormed the US Capitol.

After Trump was elected president of the United States for the second time, tech companies began to negotiate with him to settle lawsuits.

In January, Facebook owner Meta agreed to to pay Trump $25 millionand platform X (formerly Twitter), owned by Ilona Mask, in February settled a lawsuit for about $10 million.

However, political tensions around these agreements remain. In August, a group of Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren, appealed to the leaders of the Google and YouTube with a letter expressing concern about a possible quid pro quo arrangement with the president.

They warned that such steps could be seen as avoiding responsibility for violations of antitrust, labor and consumer laws and even expose the company to the risk of bribery charges.

  • On September 5, it became known that the European Commission had fined Google for abusing online advertising. Trump criticized this decision calling it a "blow" to another major American company.