SAN FRANCISCO -- YouTube agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump after he was suspended by social media platforms following the January 6, 2021, insurrection.

This makes Alphabet-owned YouTube the last of the three Big Tech social media companies sued by Trump - which included Meta and then Twitter, now called X - to settle over his removal from their platforms.

YouTube will pay $22 million to settle the claims made by Trump to the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall, which is "dedicated to restoring, preserving, and elevating the National Mall, to support the construction of the White House State Ballroom," according to a court document.

The social media company will also pay $2.5 million to settle with other plaintiffs, such as the nonprofit

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