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YouTube to settle lawsuit with Trump for banning his account
Sky News·2025-09-30 01:11

YouTube has agreed to pay 24.5m(£18.1m)tosettlealawsuitbroughtbyDonaldTrumpafteritbannedhisaccountfollowingtheJanuary6Capitolriot.TheUSpresidentwassuspendedfromtheGoogleownedplatformoverhisroleintheinsurrection,whichsawhissupportersattempttostopJoeBidens2020electionwinfrombeingratified.Morethanfouryearsonfromtheviolentscenesthatleftapoliceofficerdead,courtdocumentsfiledonMondayrevealedthat24.5m (£18.1m) to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump after it banned his account following the January 6 Capitol riot.The US president was suspended from the Google-owned platform over his role in the insurrection, which saw his supporters attempt to stop Joe Biden's 2020 election win from being ratified. More than four years on from the violent scenes that left a police officer dead, court documents filed on Monday revealed that 22m (£16.3m) from the settlement will go tow ...