{"id":541004,"date":"2021-05-26T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=541004"},"modified":"2021-05-26T08:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:06:18","slug":"russell-brand-democrats-big-tech-media-conspired-to-influence-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russell-brand-democrats-big-tech-media-conspired-to-influence-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand: Democrats, Big Tech, Media \u2018Conspired\u2019 To Influence 2020 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussell-brand-democrats-big-tech-media-conspired-to-influence-2020-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=541004&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Russell-Brand.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Comedian Russell Brand ripped into the Democratic Party and accused it of colluding with big tech companies to censor information and influence the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Brand criticized the relationship between Democrats, the media, and social media platforms on Sunday\u2019s episode of his podcast \u201cUnder The Skin\u201d during which he interviewed investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid the media and social media conspire together to information about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden\u2019s relationship with foreign energy companies out of the media?\u201d Brand began in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cs8Qae0QgGw\">clip<\/a> of his podcast. \u201cThe answer is: yes, they did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the show, Brand included the Democratic Party into the list of powerful groups working to distort information. The comedian lamented that he believes the Democratic Party to be a corrupt conspirator against democracy. He also slammed Facebook, Twitter, and legacy media for suppressing and censoring reports about Hunter Biden\u2019s connections and President Joe Biden\u2019s alleged connections to foreign businesses in China and elsewhere. Brand said:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"52\">\n<p><em>Look, I\u2019m not a pro-Republican person. I don\u2019t see myself that way. I don\u2019t see myself as a conservative, or that I\u2019m in a Trump or Giuliani or media establishments that were reporting on these revelations, they are not my cultural, social, or political allies. That\u2019s certainly not how I see myself. However, it seems to me that what reason is Hunter Biden [sitting] on the board of an energy company in the Ukraine? What reason is James Biden [sitting] on the board or receiving payments from an energy company in China?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At a time when we\u2019re talking about sleaze, corruption, financial misdemeanors and relationships between corporations, big business, and politicians, let\u2019s just face it: unless you\u2019re bloody stupid, you know that\u2019s going on all the time. So, either change that or let\u2019s stop pretending that politicians are aspiring to anything other than the advance of their own interests. And if there is a byproduct, a few people get helped along the way, well, then, that\u2019s great.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But for me, revelations that there are financial connections between energy companies in the Ukraine, energy companies in China, and the Biden family are troubling. That should be public knowledge. And it\u2019s even more troubling that Twitter and Facebook and the media at large deliberately kept it out of the news because they didn\u2019t want it to influence the election. What is democracy, then? It suggests to me that democracy is, \u2018We want you to vote for this person. We don\u2019t want you to vote for that person.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As I\u2019ve said, Donald Trump, you know, I don\u2019t think Donald Trump\u2019s the answer, but I\u2019m sad to realize that I can no longer even claim to believe that Joe Biden or the Democratic Party might be the answer, because look at how they behave. And look at the relationships between media, social media, and that party. They conspired to keep information away from you because it was not convenient to their agenda.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In October in the run-up to the 2020 election, Facebook and Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/major-networks-follow-facebook-twitter-lead-ignoring-hunter-biden-scandal\">censored<\/a> a story from The New York Post on Hunter\u2019s overseas business dealings. Major news networks followed the social media companies in the blackout of coverage on the Biden scandal. Taxpayer-funded NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/npr-admits-major-error-after-claiming-hunter-biden-laptop-reports-discredited\">dismissed<\/a> the story entirely as \u201cpure distraction\u201d and said to cover it would be a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/facebook-restricts-bombshell-ny-post-report-alleging-hunter-biden-brokered-meeting-between-burisma-exec-and-joe-biden\">Facebook Restricts Bombshell NY Post Report Alleging Hunter Biden Brokered Meeting Between Burisma Exec And Joe Biden<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Russell Brand ripped into the Democratic Party and accused it of colluding with big tech companies to censor information and influence the 2020 election.Brand criticized the relationship between Democrats, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313075,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Russell-Brand.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Russell Brand: Democrats, Big Tech, Media \u2018Conspired\u2019 To Influence 2020 Election","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Russell-Brand.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Russell Brand: Democrats, Big Tech, Media \u2018Conspired\u2019 To Influence 2020 Election","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}