<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elon Musk commented on podcaster and actor Russell Brand being demonetized on YouTube due to sexual assault allegations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite Brand not being arrested or even charged with any crimes, he was penalized on the video-sharing platform. Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro brought up the controversy during a </span><a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1707422272015724551" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">conversation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> he had with Musk Thursday on X Spaces.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What do you make of social media platforms demonetizing people for things that they are doing offline that have not resulted in, for example, criminal charges as of yet?” Shapiro asked Musk during their chat.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Musk said not only did he speak to people who vouched for Brand’s character, but that the system of silencing him without due process was unfair.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There needs to be, obviously, a conviction here. It can&#8217;t be guilty until proven innocent. Because obviously we’re just sort of in the witch burning phase here; just being declared a witch is enough to make you a witch and be burnt,” the Tesla founder told Shapiro. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Anyone could be accused at any time of false charges, and we can’t be destroying their lives on the potential of false accusations,” Musk continued. He mentioned how Brand had been “rattling the cage” of the “powers that be,” which led the X owner to wonder, “why now?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Seems like an odd coincidence that it’s happening when Russell is really gaining traction, questioning a lot of the conventional wisdom,” he said, mentioning how the actor has been accused of promoting “conspiracy theories.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think we’re running out of conspiracy theories that didn’t turn out to be true,” Musk observed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While Brand was not censored or demonetized on Rumble, major brands including Burger King, HelloFresh, and fashion brand ASOS began pulling their ads from the platform in protest. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So far, four anonymous women have accused Brand of sexual misconduct from 2006 to 2013 when the actor worked for Channel 4 and the BBC. One woman said he raped her while another claims he sexually assaulted her when she was 16 years old, which is the age of consent in the U.K.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brand has denied any wrongdoing and said that while this period was a time of “promiscuity” for him, all sexual encounters were “absolutely always consensual.”</span></p>

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