Why is Brave giving the message " An error occurred while checking for updates: Unable to connect to the Internet.?

Same problem here. I had to find the offline installer to get Brave onto my Win 10 machine because the usual method didn’t work. Then while trying to ensure I had the latest version, this error came up.

Version 1.0.0 Chromium: 78.0.3904.97 (Official Build) (64-bit)