YouTube offers the peace pipe to Trump with the payment of 24.5 million dollars

Donald Trump’s account on YouTube was closed by Google’s subsidiary after the controversial assault on the Capitol that took place beyond the seas in January 2021. The current president of the United States logically felt burning that suspensionhe accused YouTube of unconstitutional censorship and consigned a lawsuit against the famous video platform. More than four years later YouTube and Trump have finally settled down this carated fray in court.

Alphabet, the Google matrix, has reached an agreement with Trump to put an end to the demand filed in his day by the current white tenant for the closure of his YouTube account. By virtue of that agreement, the Mountain View company has avoided the president of 24.5 million dollars to the president (around 21 million euros). This is stipulated in some judicial documents They saw the light this Monday.

The agreement provides that 22 million of the 24.5 million dollars paid by YouTube will go directly to the Trust for the National Mall organizationbehind which Donald Trump is. Trust for the National Mall is a non -profit organization constituted in its day for the construction of a dance hall valued at 200 million dollars in the White House. The rest of the amount paid by Alphabet will be allocated to other plaintiffs (the American Conservative Union and the American writer Naomi Wolf, among others).

In the YouTube agreement does not admit incurred any error

Despite the agreement that has reached Donald Trump, YouTube has not admitted any error in its decision to suspend the president’s account And he does not intend to introduce changes in his products and his policies as part of the agreement.

Trump’s account on Google’s video platform was suspended after the republican radical supporters forcefully broke into the Capitol on January 6, 2021. After that incident Trump was also vetoed by Twitter (now X), Facebook and Instagram. The president did not remain, however, crossed arms and sued YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accusing them of attacking freedom of expression and practicing censorship by jumping to the bullfighter the principles collected in the United States Constitution.

Alphabet has been the last of the “Big Tech” demanded in his day by Trump to reach an agreement with the president. In January Meta settled the dispute with the payment of 25 million dollars, while X paid approximately 10 million in February.

Since Donald Trump returned to the White House earlier this year, The Republican and the technological giants of Silicon Valley have approached positions. Trump’s possession came, not in vain, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai, among other “Techies” gerifals.