{"id":294373,"date":"2025-10-01T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=294373"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:10:00","slug":"youtube-pays-donald-trump-24-5-million-to-settle-2021-account-suspension-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=294373","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Pays Donald Trump $24.5 Million to Settle 2021 Account Suspension Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alphabet-owned YouTube agreed to a $24.5 million settlement in a Florida federal court on September 29, 2025, resolving a 2021 lawsuit filed by President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=7862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> and co-plaintiffs over the suspension of his account following the January 6 Capitol riot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agreement allocates $22 million to the Trust for the National Mall to fund a new White House State Ballroom project, while $2.5 million is divided among co-plaintiffs including the American Conservative Union and author Naomi Wolf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\" title=\"\">YouTube<\/a> reinstated Trump&#8217;s channel in March 2023 and admitted no wrongdoing, marking the end of his major legal actions against Big Tech firms for post-riot account bans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement allocates $22 million to the Trust for the National Mall to fund a new White House State Ballroom project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":211236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7862,992],"tags":[17592],"class_list":["post-294373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-donald-trump","category-social-media","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294374,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294373\/revisions\/294374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}