YouTube has suspended advertisements on Russell Model’s channel after the British comic was accused of rape and sexual assault.
YouTube stated its “monetisation” on Model’s platform as a result of he had violated the corporate’s “creator duty coverage.” Model denies prison wrongdoing.
“If a creator’s off-platform behaviour harms our customers, staff or ecosystem, we take motion to guard the group,” a YouTube spokesperson stated.
Model has 6.6M subscribers on YouTube and his movies commonly get hundreds of thousands of views. A latest interview with Tucker Carlson has been watched 2.5M occasions.
His content material will stay on YouTube, however he’ll not have the ability to earn cash from movies, which lean closely into fashionable web conspiracies about politics, Covid, and UFOs.
YouTube’s intervention follows The Occasions, Sunday Occasions, and Channel 4 reporting allegations that Model sexually assaulted 4 ladies on the peak of his fame. Model vehemently denies the claims and has stated all of his relationships had been consensual.
He has not commented since publishing a video throughout his social media channels during which he preemptively denied the “litany” of allegations about his prison habits.
“The relationships that I had had been completely all the time consensual,” he stated. “I used to be all the time clear about that then, nearly too clear. And I’m being clear about it now.”
