Russell Brand moves to Rumble amid censorship row

msn.com:

Russell Brand has quit YouTube amid claims he's been "censored" by the platform. The outspoken comedian has relocated to Rumble - a rival online video platform - after one of his posts was "censored", with YouTube alleging that it featured COVID-19 disinformation.

Russell explained to his audience: "We have been officially censored by YouTube. "They took down one of our videos for misinformation. " Russell, 47, explained that a previous clip was removed from YouTube after he "cited information on official government websites, which we misinterpreted".

The movie star apologised for the mistake and admitted to making an error. He said in a video message: "We made an apology video, we've taken that down as well.

YouTube took down our original video, we've taken down the apology video because in case we reiterate the claim while apologising for it. "We made an error, in my opinion a relatively small error, and we're being penalised! "For me, that looks like censorship, and the reason I think it looks like censorship is because there's mainstream media misinformation up all the time. " Russell also suggested that he'll be able to talk more "freely" on Rumble.