Russell Brand scorches YouTube over "misinformation" double standard

“Why are big media organizations not censored for misinformation in the same way? Is it because YouTube are part of the mainstream media?” Brand asked.

“We have a responsibility to make sure the information we convey is absolutely 100 percent as accurate as we could be,” he said. He didn’t shirk away from his role in the NIH mistake, although his admission proved more transparent than many news outlets.

The YouTube “strike” rattled Brand, in part, because he sees a glaring double standard afoot.

“It looks like censorship because the mainstream media misinformation is up all the time,” he said, cueing up Rachel Maddow of MSNBC fame describing how effective the COVID-19 vaccines were upon their initial release.