YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspensiontoggle caption Josh Edelson/AFP for Getty ImagesYouTube will pay $24.5 million to President Trump to resolve a 2021 lawsuit that claimed he was the victim of censorship when the site suspended his account following the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump's supporters, according to federal court papers filed on Monday. Sponsor MessageIt's the latest settlement reached by a tech company sued by Trump in the wake of the Capitol riots. In January, Meta paid the president $25 million over Facebook's and Instagram's decision to suspend Trump after Jan. 6. "This YouTube settlement is not a sign of any legal merit." Sponsor MessagePonying up tens of millions of dollars to settle Trump's lawsuits alleging censorship is a striking about-face for Silicon Valley, which for years defended the right to police its own social media platforms.