Alphabet, a YouTube owner, agreed to pay $ 24.5 million to US President Donald Trump and supporters whose accounts were removed from the platform after the capitol invasion on January 6, 2021.
According to information from The New York Times and Reuters agency, a legal document filed on Monday (29) in the US District Court for Northern California pointed out that $ 22 million will be destined to Trump.
The rest of the amount will be paid to other applicants in the case, such as the American Conservative Union.
The US $ 22 million for Trump will be directed, according to the president’s nomination, to Trust for the National Mall, a non -profit organization involved in the work of a $ 200 million ballroom that Republican is building in the White House.
Trump and his supporters were suspended from various social networks after the invasion of the US Congress, decisions that were contested in court.
In January, the owner, owner of Facebook and Instagram, signed an agreement to pay $ 25 million to Trump. The following month, the X signed a similar deal and agreed to pay about $ 10 million to the president, whose account on former Twitter had already been restored by businessman Elon Musk after bought the social network in 2022.
YouTube and the goal restored Trump’s accounts in 2023.
