Russell Brand's social media accounts disabled by Meta

It comes after the 51-year-old former entertainer was sentenced to 10-and-a-half-years in jail for one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault earlier this week. Brand is currently in prison and is expected to serve seven years of his sentence behind bars before being released on licence. On Thursday evening, a post appeared on his X account, which remains active.

"There was never a Russell Brand, according to @meta," it read. Meta's community standards policy says that "in order to maintain a safe environment and empower free expression" it restricts or removes accounts that are "harmful to the community". In 2023, after a media investigation revealing allegations about Brand's behaviour - which he denies - YouTube suspended his channels from making money from adverts for "violating" its "creator responsibility policy".

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