Instead, Brand accused the Trusted News Initiative - a partnership between global organizations like the BBC, AP, European Broadcasting Union, Financial Times, Google/YouTube, Meta, Microsoft, and The Washington Post designed to tackle disinformation - of being a “collaboration between big tech and legacy media organizations to target, control, choke and shut down independent media organizations like this one.”īrand spent the rest of the video promoting an upcoming Rumble episode where he promised to cover the “deep state and corporate collusion,” “military industrial complex,” big pharma, media corruption, and censorship. Watch Extraordinary You Season 1 Episode 32 - Dan-ohs Feelings For Haru.Beneath The Tree, Haru And Dan-oh Declare Their Love For One Another. “I’s been an extraordinary and distressing week,” said Brand, who did not address the claims directly in Friday’s three-minute video. The clip is his first public comment since the initial accusations were published in an investigation by the Sunday Times and U.K. Russell Brand posted a new video across his social media channels on Friday after facing allegations of rape, sexual assault, and emotional abuse.