Google-owned YouTube has suspended advertisements on videos by comedian and actor Russell Brand after allegations of rape and sexual assault. YouTube said it had suspended the monetization of Brand…
YouTube said it had suspended the monetization of Brand’s channel for “violating our Creator Responsibility policy,” adding that the action was in order to “protect” its users.
Brands channels remain on YouTube. One of them has 6.6 million subscribers, while the others range from 20,000 to 426,000. The BBC and Banijay, who employed the comedian at the time the incidents were said to have taken place, have Brand has strenuously denied the allegations. He pre-emptively denied the allegations in a YouTube video titled “So, This Is Happening,” where he said he “absolutely refutes” the “litany of astonishing, rather baroque, attacks.”
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