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YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5m (£18.1m) to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump after it banned his account following the January 6 Capitol riot. The US president was suspended from the Google-owned platform over his role in the insurrection, which saw his supporters attempt to stop Joe Biden's 2020 election win from being ratified . More than four years on from the violent scenes that left a police officer dead , court documents filed on Monday revealed that $22m (£16.3m) from the settlement will go towards a trust for Washington DC's National Mall and the construction of a White House ballroom. The remainder will be paid to other parties involved in the case, including the American Conservative Union. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Capitol rioter: 'I was convicted in a show trial' Google declined to comment on the reasons for the settlement, which does not constitute an admission of liability. Mr Trump's YouTube account has been back online since 2023. Read more from Sky News: Trump wants to govern Gaza with Blair Google's parent company Alphabet is the third tech firm to settle with Mr Trump over what he perceived as an illegitimate

YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5m (£18.6m) to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump, filed after the video platform suspended his account in the wake of the 6 January attack on US Capitol. The settlement from the video streaming giant's parent company Alphabet - which also owns Google - comes after social media sites X/Twitter and Facebook also agreed to pay Trump for suspending his accounts. Trump had accused YouTube and other tech companies of political bias, claiming they had unfairly censored conservative voices after the Capitol riot in 2021. At the time of his suspension, social media companies said that Trump risked inciting further violence in Washington DC. As part of Monday's settlement, YouTube will pay $22m to the Trust for the National Mall, a non-profit group that is aiming to raise $200m to build a new ballroom at the White House. Another $2.5m will be paid to other organisations and individuals who joined Trump's lawsuit, including the American Conservative Union. YouTube is the latest major platform to settle with the president. In January, Facebook's parent company Meta agreed to a $25m settlement - with $22m earmarked for Trump's presidential library. A month later, social media platform X

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YouTube has a newly rebranded Labs page (Image credit: YouTube) YouTube Music has a new AI music hosts feature It sounds similar to the AI DJ in Spotify The new feature is part of a YouTube Labs portal If you're a YouTube Music user in the US, then you may have an experimental new feature to test out in your account: It's being introduced as part of what YouTube is calling YouTube Labs, so it looks as though more experiments will be on the way in the future. YouTube Labs is apparently "dedicated to exploring the potential of AI on YouTube", and the first test to be pushed out is something called AI music hosts. These hosts are going to "deepen your listening experience" by sharing relevant stories, fan trivia, and "fun" commentary in between tracks in the YouTube Music app. As per the official announcement, it's open to a "limited number" of users in the US – we're not yet part of the group, so we can't tell you exactly how the feature works. However, it does sound similar to the AI DJ that's available as part of Spotify Premium. The folks over at 9to5Google have got the AI

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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube TV needs to renew its carriage contract with NBCUniversal. The service is reportedly frustrated with the high rates it pays, and wants to leverage its size for a better deal. If nothing is worked out by October, viewers face the proposition of channel blackouts. Is there anything more pathetic than when big companies take their petty spats public? You’d think that institutions with multi-billion-dollar valuations would be able to negotiate arrangements between themselves professionally (and behind closed doors, most likely), but sometimes us end users get unceremoniously pulled into the fights. That happens far too often with cable companies temporarily dropping channels after failing to work out deals, and right now we’re worried that YouTube TV could be headed for just that kind of confrontation. According to CNBC’s Alex Sherman, YouTube’s deal to carry NBCUniversal is expiring at the end of the month, and as of right now a smooth renewal doesn’t sound particularly guaranteed. Any time one of these carriage contracts is up for renewal, there’s the possibility for something to go wrong — usually one of the parties insisting on a price hike or bundle arrangement that the other’s not particularly

Something isn't loading properly. Please check back later. Newfound enthusiasm about Jimmy Kimmel’s show is not evaporating after just one monologue. Kimmel’s Wednesday night follow-up to his Tuesday night comeback show quickly racked up millions of views on YouTube on Thursday morning, indicating that interest in Kimmel’s commentary remains way above normal. By 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, the Wednesday night monologue had topped 5 million views, enough to rank as one of his most-watched videos of the year on YouTube. Meanwhile, his emotional Tuesday night monologue has surpassed 20 million views on YouTube. That one already ranks as his most-watched monologue of all time on the platform. The surge in online viewership is partly because Kimmel’s show has been blacked out by Nexstar and Sinclair. The two local TV station operators control ABC-affiliated stations in markets that represent about 23% of American TV households. Nexstar said Wednesday that it is having “productive discussions” with Disney, while Sinclair referred CNN back to its earlier statement on the matter. On traditional television, Kimmel’s return episode scored at least 6.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen measurements. That figure will increase once other forms of viewing are factored in. Kimmel alluded to his