Elon Musk was fast to reply to Russell Brand’s video on Friday through which the British comic strenuously denied some “very serious allegations” made in opposition to him
The allegations, which haven’t but been revealed, are set to be explored in a documentary on Saturday and printed in a newspaper.
Brand shared the three-minute video on his YouTube channel and X (previously Twitter), the social media firm owned by Musk.
In it, Brand stated the allegations “pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when… I was very, very promiscuous”, though he insisted all his relationships had been consensual.
He then prompt that the investigations have been a part of a “coordinated media attack”, “like with Joe Rogan, when he dared to take a medicine that the mainstream media didn’t approve of”.
Musk replied to Brand’s tweet, writing: “Of course. They don’t like competition.”
Brand boasts greater than six and a half million followers on his YouTube channel, the place he shares his ideas on present affairs, typically referencing conspiracy theories.
He has regularly attacked the mainstream media up to now.
In his video, Brand stated there have been witnesses who may “directly contradict” the claims being made in opposition to him in a “narrative” that two “mainstream media outlets are trying to construct, apparently in what seems to me to be a very coordinated attack”.
During his “time of promiscuity”, Brand stated, “the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then. Almost too transparent, and I’m being transparent about it now as well. And to see that transparency metastasized into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question, is there another agenda at play?”
He concluded: “Now, I don’t wanna get into this any further because of the serious nature of the allegations, but I feel like I’m being attacked and plainly they’re working very closely together. We are obviously going to look into this matter ‘cause it’s very, very serious. In the meantime, I want you to stay close, stay awake, but more important than any of that, if you can, please stay free.”
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Elon Musk (left) and Russell Brand
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Musk has additionally been criticised for pushing conspiracy theories up to now. In July, the mogul prompt that LeBron James’s son Bronny’s cardiac arrest may have been linked to the Covid-19 vaccine.
Yale School of Medicine wrote on its web site that myocarditis, or swelling of the guts muscle, “is a rare side effect of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which have been used with great success as protection against the SARS CoV-2 virus and its variants.”
Musk shared earlier this 12 months that whereas he’s “generally pro vaccine”, “the world obviously went crazy with excess vaccination against ‘Covid-19’. I have that in quotes, because the RNA sequences changed so much that I called it the virus of Theseus.
“So many people I know had serious side effects from the vaccines, including myself. Failure to acknowledge that is a lie.”
On Friday, the Mirror reported that Channel 4 was set to focus on alleged behaviour by an A-list movie star in a Dispatches investigation scheduled to air at 9pm on Saturday evening.
The Independent has contacted Channel 4 for remark.
Source: www.unbiased.co.uk
