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YouTube
agreed to pay US $ 24.5 million or around Rp. 407 billion to complete the lawsuit filed by the US President
Donald Trump
In 2021. The lawsuit accused Youtube in the wrong suspension of his channel after the January 6 attack at the US Capitol Building.
Google’s subsidiary is the latest technology company in the long row of technology companies that pay millions of dollars compensation to the President of the United States (US) related to past decisions to Trump’s accounts.
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Trump has filed a lawsuit against Youtube and CEO Alphabet Sundar Pichai, with the accusation that the platform has “gathered power concentration, market share, and the ability to determine the direction of our country’s public conversation that has never happened before”.
Youtube said that they suspended Trump channels for violating the website policy that prohibited the provocation of violence.
Quoted from
The Guardian
, Tuesday (30/9), this case is now closed after the resolution between the two parties.Google itself does not immediately respond to requests for comments related to this issue.
This news appeared only a week after YouTube announced that they would allow creators who had been banned because they spread false information about Covid-19 and the 2020 US Presidential Election to be restored.
In his announcement, Youtube said they celebrated conservative voices on the platform and blamed the suspension of the account at pressure from Joe Biden.
Previously, the Facebook parent company, Meta, had completed a similar lawsuit with Trump in January with a payment of US $ 25 million.Then, the social media platform X (previously Twitter) completed another lawsuit of US $ 10 million in February.
Most of the payments from the meta lawsuit will be allocated to President Trump’s library fund.
According to the document submitted at the US District Court for the North California district, in the completion of the Youtube lawsuit, Trump has directed US $ 22 million from the payment for the recovery and preservation of National Mall and supports the construction of the White House Ballroom.The luxury ballroom is expected to cost around US $ 200 million.
According to the Wall Street Journal who first reported this news, the three cases were first submitted by Trump’s lawyer and allies, John Coale.
Coale told the journal that Trump’s return to the White House played an important role in achieving a series of settlements with technology companies.
“If he is not re -elected, we will be in court for 1,000 years,” Coale said.
Coale now serves as Trump’s special representative for Ukraine and Belarus.
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