Meta Removes Russell Brand’s Instagram & Facebook Account After Rape Conviction
- Newsrooms
- 6
- Last 3 hours
- 3 reports
- Momentum
- Surging
1 in the 3 before
Rising
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 91% of the past week’s 4034 stories, and number 35 of 503 in Film & TV.Why it’s moving
- Spreading3 of its 6 newsrooms picked it up in the last 3 hours.
- Scoop
1File photo: Russell Brand
Ed Miliband has finally responded to Russell Brand's rape conviction after the Foreign Secretary previously had engagements with the disgraced comedian. At Southwark Crown Court last week, the 51-year-old was found guilty of one rape and three counts of sexual assault before being jailed for 10 ye
Deadline didn’t include a summary, so this is GB News’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Russell Brand
Russell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor and media personality. He rose to prominence as the host of Big Brother's Big Mouth, a spin-off of the reality television series Big Brother broadcast on E4.4
The story so far
6 newsroomsRising- Reports
- 6
- Newsrooms and sources
- 6
- Last 3 hours
- 3
Rising: more reports in the last three hours than the three before (3 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: Metro, 2 hr 22 min before anyone else.
Reported by 6 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 6
- Over
- 8.2 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 6 hr
Newsrooms on it each counted once
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 4:34am AEDT | Metro | 1 |
| 6:55am AEDT | GB News | 2 |
| 10:35am AEDT | Mediaweek | 3 |
| 11:23am AEDT | Variety | 4 |
| 12:30pm AEDT | TheWrap | 5 |
| 12:48pm AEDT | Deadline | 6 |


