On Monday, September 29th, court documents were filed.

You can see that bump on your screen showing that YouTube had agreed to pay nearly $25 million

in order to settle their lawsuit with President Trump.

Now, I'm sure that everyone already knows at least the basic outline of the story behind that particular lawsuit.

Immediately after the events of January 6th,

2021, you had several social media platforms, almost simultaneously, literally on the same day,

the platform President Trump. Included among them were YouTube, owned by Google. You had Twitter,

at that time, still controlled by Mr. Jack Dorsey, as well as Facebook,

which also controlled Instagram.

And so essentially overnight, President Trump's accounts were suspended on those three major

platforms while I should mention he was still actively the president of the United States

of America. And just to remind president of the United States of America.

And just to remind you of the rationale that these three companies gave for their actions back in 2021, quote, the company said in January of 2021 that they had banned Trump over his allegations

that the November 2020 election was stolen, which they alleged contributed to January 6th related violence.

Twitter said that Trump's ban would be permanent.

Facebook imposed a two-year ban on Trump, and YouTube said that his suspension would continue until it determined that the risk of violence has decreased.

And so again, all that was in the beginning part of 2021, in January of 2021.

Seven months later, in July of 2021, President Trump filed a major class action lawsuit

against those three companies, Twitter, Facebook, and Google, arguing that his and others,

First Amendment rights, were violated when these companies did what they did.

Quote, speaking from his property in Bedminster, New Jersey,

Trump and his team said that the lawsuits are about protecting the first amendment right to free speech.

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