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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Dan Milmo and Hibaq Farah

Video platform Rumble rejects MPs’ call to demonetise Russell Brand

Russell Brand pictured in 2006.
Russell Brand pictured in 2006. Brand posts content on Rumble ranging from conspiracy theories to critiques of mainstream media. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Rumble, a video-sharing platform used by Russell Brand, has accused a parliamentary committee of “deeply inappropriate” behaviour after it asked whether the site would suspend payments to the comedian.

Caroline Dinenage, the Conservative chair of the culture, media and sport committee, wrote this week to Rumble’s chief executive, Chris Pavlovski, to express concern that Brand “may be able to profit from his content on the platform”.

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