YouTube agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a July, 2021 lawsuit by Donald Trump after his account was suspended following the U.S. Capitol riot.

Trump filed class action suits against tech giants Meta and Twitter as well and the CEOs of all three companies for blocking his social media accounts. YouTube/ Google parent Alphabet is the last of the three to settle with the president.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta agreed early this year to pay $25 million to settle , with funds mostly going to Trump’s presidential library. X (formerly Twitter) agreed to a $10 million settlement.

Google executives were eager to keep their settlement smaller than the one paid by rival Meta, said the WSJ citing people familiar with the matter. It said Trump’s share of the settlement — $22 million — will go

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