Meta Removes Russell Brand’s Instagram & Facebook Account After Rape Conviction

Russell Brand, who was convicted of rape and sexual assault, posted on Elon Musk’s X that Meta had taken down his Instagram account.

After being sentenced to 10 years in prison for rape and sexual assault, Brand has now found himself without a social media platform.

“We disabled your account. You no longer have access to russellbrand,” read the screenshot the sex offender shared on X.

In the explanation as to why his account was deleted, the screenshot read, “Your account, or activity on it, doesn’t follow our Community Standards. No one can see or find your account, and you can’t use it. All your information will be permanently deleted.”

Meta also noted that Brand would not be able to “request another review of this decision,” but allowed him to download all the information he had previously shared.

Brand’s Instagram account had over 5M followers, and he had shared more than 6,500 posts.

The sex offender’s Facebook Page was also removed, with the screenshot reading, “We suspended your page. This is because Russell Brand goes against our Community Standards.” On the Facebook page, Brand had 6.2M followers.

On Monday of this week, Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison for rape and sexual assault. He had been convicted the previous week for anally raping a woman in 2009. He was also found guilty of three counts of sexual assault, including grabbing the breasts of an ex-MTV staffer in 2004 and putting his head in the groin of a former Channel 4 employee in 2009.