Meta Disables Russell Brand's Accounts After 10.5-Year Sex-Offence Sentence
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Updated · BBC.com · Nov 12
Meta Disables Russell Brand's Accounts After 10.5-Year Sex-Offence Sentence
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Nov 12
Summary
Meta has disabled Russell Brand's accounts across its platforms, extending action beyond the Instagram removal reported earlier Wednesday.
The move followed Brand's 10-and-a-half-year sentence for one rape count and three sexual assaults involving four women, tied to offences between 2004 and 2009.
Meta's rules allow it to remove accounts owned by convicted sex offenders as part of its policy against content and users deemed harmful to the community.
Brand, 51, is in prison and is expected to serve about seven years before release on licence; his X account stayed active and posted a message attacking Meta while praising Elon Musk.
The crackdown adds to earlier platform penalties: YouTube suspended ad revenue on Brand's channels in 2023 after media investigations into allegations he denied.