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September 29, 2025
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YouTube Settles Trump’s Account Suspension Lawsuit for $24.5 Million.

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âť“WHAT HAPPENED: YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald J. Trump over the suspension of his account.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The lawsuit involved President Trump, YouTube, and its parent company, Alphabet (Google).

đź“ŤWHEN & WHERE: The settlement was announced on September 29, 2025, following a lawsuit stemming from events in 2021.

🎯IMPACT: The settlement marks YouTube as the latest Big Tech company to settle with Trump over anti-censorship lawsuits.

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YouTube has reached a $24.5 million settlement with President Donald J. Trump over a lawsuit concerning the suspension of his account after the January 6 protests in 2021. This settlement concludes the series of anti-censorship lawsuits Trump filed against major social media platforms.

Previously, Meta Platforms agreed to a $25 million settlement, with much of the funds allocated to Trump’s presidential library. Meanwhile, X (formerly Twitter)—another platform involved—settled for $10 million, directing a significant portion to Trump himself.

According to sources familiar with the situation, Alphabet (Google), YouTube’s parent company, was determined to keep its settlement amount lower than Meta’s. Of the $24.5 million settlement, $22 million is designated for the Trust for the National Mall to support the construction of a ballroom at the White House.

An additional $2.5 million is allocated to the other plaintiffs involved in the lawsuit, which includes the American Conservative Union and writer Naomi Wolf. Details regarding attorney fees were not specified in the settlement documents.

Both ABC and CBS have also settled lawsuits brought by Trump. ABC agreed to a $15 million settlement stemming from comments made by Clinton-operative-turned-journalist George Stephanopoulos, who repeatedly claimed during a March 10, 2024, broadcast that Trump was “found liable for rape” in a lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll. However, a Manhattan jury found Trump was not liable for rape.

Meanwhile, CBS agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit over a doctored 60 Minutes interview with 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

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September 23, 2025
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EXC: ‘Go F**k Yourself’ — Bannon Vows to ‘Destroy’ Google Despite Its Promise to Restore Accounts Banned for Political Speech.

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âť“WHAT HAPPENED: WarRoom host and former Trump White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon has reacted to Google’s decision to allow conservative creators who lost their YouTube accounts during the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 election to return.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Stephen K. Bannon, Google/Alphabet, and affected creators.

đź“ŤWHEN & WHERE: Bannon spoke exclusively to The National Pulse.

💬KEY QUOTE: “Google Oligarchs Go F**k Yourself—Our Mission is to Destroy You.” – Stephen K. Bannon.

🎯IMPACT: Bannon’s remarks underscore the ongoing tension between the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement and Big Tech, despite its escalating attempts to appease President Donald J. Trump and his supporters.

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WarRoom host and former Trump White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon has shown little desire for reconciliation with Google and holding company Alphabet after the tech giant announced it would allow conservative creators, banned during the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 election for voicing skepticism about the narrative and policies around the virus and the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s win, to return to their platforms.

In an exclusive interview with The National Pulse, Bannon did not hold back, stating, “Google Oligarchs Go Fuck Yourself—Our Mission is to Destroy You.”

The WarRoom host is one of many America First and conservative leaders removed from YouTube for political speech, alongside Dan Bongino, now the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director, and Sebastian ‘Seb’ Gorka, now the Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States.

“Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect,” Google wrote to the House Judiciary Committee, which had pressed the tech giant over its censorship regime.

Bannon is one of many MAGA voices who believe Big Tech, which has at least somewhat rolled back its deplatforming and partisan “fact-checks” in recent months, is merely attempting to appease the Trump administration to avoid a regulatory clampdown, with no real change of heart behind its policy shift.

Notably, Google is claiming it was pressured into acting as a censor by the Democrats when they wielded political power, saying, “Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies.”

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September 23, 2025
William Upton
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Google to Reinstate YouTube Accounts Banned for Political Speech.

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âť“WHAT HAPPENED: Google said YouTube will allow permanently banned accounts, including those censored for political speech, to seek reinstatement, acknowledging prior pressure from the Biden government to suspend the accounts over COVID-19 pandemic content.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Google/Alphabet, YouTube, the House Judiciary Committee, Dan Bongino, Sebastian Gorka, Stephen K. Bannon, and the former Biden government.

đź“ŤWHEN & WHERE: Announced Tuesday in a document provided to the House Judiciary Committee; applies platform-wide on YouTube.

đź’¬KEY QUOTE: “Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect,” Google wrote to the House Judiciary Committee.

🎯IMPACT: Potential return of high-profile conservative creators; broader shift away from pandemic-era moderation; renewed scrutiny of alleged government jawboning undermining the First Amendment.

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Google announced on Tuesday that it will reinstate YouTube accounts that had previously been permanently banned over political speech under pressure from the former Biden government. A number of YouTube creators received bans or suspensions for refusing to remove COVID-19 pandemic content that Biden officials claimed to be disinformation.

The announcement by the Big Tech giant—also known as Alphabet—was contained in a legal document detailing the company’s new policy, which was sent to the House Judiciary Committee. The change impacts potentially thousands of users, including prominent supporters of President Donald J. Trump like Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States Sebastian Gorka, and WarRoom host Stephen K. Bannon.

“Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect,” Google wrote to the House Judiciary Committee.

In 2022, Google permanently banned Bongino from YouTube, resulting in the now-Deputy FBI Director taking his political talk radio program to YouTube competitor Rumble. Bongino ended his radio show earlier this year after his appointment by President Trump to the FBI.

According to Google, it “values conservative voices on its [YouTube] platform” and stated that conservative content creators “have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse.” In addition, the company detailed how it was pressured by Biden White House staffers to censor conservative content, especially relating to what they claimed was disinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The document states that while Google did remove some content independent of requests by the former Biden government, it has now ended those policies as well.

“Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies,” Google acknowledged, adding that the Biden White House “created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding misinformation.”

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May 14, 2024
Jack Montgomery
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Rumble Sues Google!

Pro-free speech video-sharing platform Rumble has initiated legal proceedings against Google and its parent body, Alphabet, alleging anti-competitive digital advertising policies that violate the Sherman Antitrust Act. “Google exploits significant conflicts of interest that stem from its multiple roles in this electronically traded marketplace,” Rumble argues in its lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of California.

“As a result, it is able to pocket a supra-competitive portion of every advertising dollar that passes through the Ad Tech markets it controls, ad-revenue that rightly should have passed through to publishers like Rumble and its content creators,” it continues, accusing Google of “exclud[ing] competition by engaging in conduct unlawful under settled antitrust precedent, including through unlawful tying arrangements, a pattern and practice of exclusionary conduct targeting actual and potential rivals.”

Rumble is seeking “injunctive relief and damages in excess of $1 billion.”

Separately, Rumble is suing Check My Ads, a tax-exempt organization it accuses of “routinely target[ing] news outlets and platforms that do not adhere to their political worldview” and defamation.

The Joe Biden regime is also suing Google under anti-trust laws for striking revenue-sharing agreements with companies like Apple, Samsung, and Mozilla to make Google the default search engine on web browsers and mobile phones. This is despite the fact that the tech giant has “utilized its power to help push to electoral victory the most liberal candidates… while targeting their opponents for censorship” in at least 41 recent elections, according to a Media Research Center (MRC) study.

More recently, Google has been censoring Donald Trump campaign ads showing life is worse for Americans under Biden.

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Pro-free speech video-sharing platform Rumble has initiated legal proceedings against Google and its parent body, Alphabet, alleging anti-competitive digital advertising policies that violate the Sherman Antitrust Act. "Google exploits significant conflicts of interest that stem from its multiple roles in this electronically traded marketplace," Rumble argues in its lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of California. show more