Russell Model thanked his supporters in a brand new video for serving to him via an “extraordinary and distressing week” as he floated a brand new media conspiracy in regards to the rape and sexual assault allegations made in opposition to him.
The embattled TV character took to Twitter to speak on to his followers in regards to the sexual misconduct allegations detailed by 4 girls final weekend. The BBC has launched an investigation into claims he uncovered himself to a girl of their Los Angeles workplace constructing.
“Clearly it has been a unprecedented and distressing week and I thanks very a lot in your assist and for questioning the knowledge that you’ve got been introduced with,” stated Model within the three-minute video.
He used the video to assault the UK authorities and social media platforms which have shut down his capacity to generate profits from his accounts.
“By now you might be most likely conscious that the British authorities have requested huge tech platforms to censor our on-line content material and that some on-line platforms have complied with that request,” he stated.
Model then advised his supporters that it had been performed within the “context of the On-line Security Invoice” within the UK, which he stated “grants sweeping surveillance and censorship powers” within the nation.
The comic and former BBC presenter then warned his followers in regards to the “Trusted Information Initiative”, which is a partnership of worldwide information organisations that goals to deal with disinformation.
“Belief is the very last thing you have to be providing,” claimed Model as he stated the group’s purpose was “to focus on, management, choke and shut down impartial media organisations, like this one”.
“It’s clear that these organisations collaborate in establishing narratives, whether or not that’s across the battle or the pandemic, and naturally there are different examples. And it is rather clear to me that we have to be very, very cautious certainly.”
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Model then urged his followers to observe him on Canada-based Rumble, the one social media platform the place he’s nonetheless capable of monetise his movies.
“I want your assist now greater than ever and greater than I ever imagined I’d,” he stated.
YouTube introduced on Tuesday it had blocked Model from earning profits from his channel on the positioning, which has 6.6 million subscribers.
Caroline Dinenage, chair of the UK parliament’s tradition, media and sport committee, wrote to Rumble’s chief government Chris Pavlovski asking if Model was capable of monetise his content material on the positioning.
“If that’s the case, we wish to know whether or not Rumble intends to affix YouTube in suspending Mr Model’s capacity to earn cash on the platform?” she stated.
Mr Pavlovski branded the letter “extraordinarily disturbing”, and stated it was “deeply inappropriate and harmful that the UK parliament would try to regulate who’s allowed to talk on our platform or to earn a residing from doing so”.
A joint investigation by The Times, The Sunday Times, and Channel 4’s Dispatches highlighted the tales of 4 girls – together with one who was 16 years outdated on the time – who say Model both raped or sexually assaulted them between 2006 and 2013.
Model has denied the allegations and stated that all the interactions have been consensual.
One of many accusers advised the publishers that she was 16 on the time of her alleged sexual relationship with Model, who was 30 years outdated on the the time. She claims Model referred to her as “the kid” and chosen clothes for her to put on throughout their dates.
One other lady claims Model raped her in his Los Angeles dwelling in 2012 after she declined to interact in intercourse acts with him and a “buddy”. The lady stated she needed to go to a rape remedy centre after the incident and spend 5 months in remedy to maneuver previous what occurred.
Alleged texts between her and Model have been made public over the weekend. The quantity she says is Model’s apologises within the messages for appearing “loopy and egocentric”.
The BBC introduced on Friday that it was investigating a declare that Model uncovered himself to a girl on the company’s Los Angeles workplace constructing earlier than laughing about it on his radio present.
The incident allegedly occurred in 2008 when the girl was working in the identical constructing, BBC Information reported.