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YouTube to pay Trump $22 million in settlement

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    50% Medium Right

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The online video platform, a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, is the latest Big Tech firm to settle with Trump after he lodged legal cases challenging his broad deplatforming after January 6.
51% : Tech and media companies too However, tech and media companies have greenlighted settlements to Trump since his return to office as they await action from Washington on major matters affecting their businesses.
39% : Media companies have also agreed to settlements with Trump in cases brought by the president that experts see as legally dodgy.
38% : Journalism watchdog group Media Matters decried the settlement, saying it portends continued First Amendment problems under Trump.
22% : Trump reposted a message on his Truth Social platform late Monday saying "this MASSIVE victory proves Big Tech censorship has consequences," adding that the Republican "fought for free speech and WON!" Major platforms removed Trump after January 6 amid worries he would promote further violence with bogus claims that voter fraud caused his loss to Joe Biden in 2020.
17% : READ: Donald Trump and his actions, as seen by world leaders The 79-year-old Republican took social media companies and YouTube to court, claiming he was wrongfully censored.
10% : Trump blocked by YouTube YouTube blocked Trump from uploading new content on January 12, 2021, pointing to "concerns about the ongoing potential for violence."
6% : For example, Paramount Global agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Trump over an interview with former vice president Kamala Harris that Trump claimed was edited unfairly.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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