In response to Meta’s decision to block Mr. Tate from Facebook and Instagram, the Google-owned social media platform took action. The former kickboxer became a household name in 2016 after a video surfaced of him allegedly attacking a female houseguest on the reality TV show Big Brother.
As a result of his comments that sexual assault victims should “bear responsibility,” Twitter banned him and he became a viral sensation. Mr. Tate said the controversial video was edited, calling it “a total lie trying to make me look bad” at the time of his Big Brother removal in 2016.
Google, which owns YouTube, explained to the BBC: “We terminated channels associated with Andrew Tate for multiple violations of our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service, including our hate speech policy.
If a user’s YouTube channel deleted, they will no longer have access to any of their other channels or be able to create new ones. In total, Mr. Tate’s YouTube channels had over a million subscribers.
‘Hateful ideology’
As part of the ongoing probe into the removal of policy violations, TikTok has also banned an account belonging to Mr. Tate. “Misogyny a hateful ideology that not tolerated on TikTok,” a company representative said to the BBC.
We’ve been taking down offensive content for weeks, and it’s great to hear that other sites are doing the same. Tate had 4.7 million Instagram followers before his account deleted. Starting at around a million in June, that figure increased rapidly.
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Meta claimed that the kickboxing celebrity had banned from its services for violating its rules against harmful groups and individuals, but gave no further explanation.
Analysis
Videos by Andrew Tate, who promotes misogyny and attacks women, have gone viral this summer, with many teenagers noting the prevalence with which his content appears in their social media feeds.
Concerns have voiced about the potential adverse effects of his material, especially for younger users who may be exposed to it during school breaks. There has a lot of attention on TikTok, where users claim to have been automatically recommended Mr. Tate’s videos, leading to a flood of responses, both supportive and critical.
Since his success on YouTube has garnered millions of views, the video sharing platform has also come under fire.
For BBC’s Panorama, I exposed how social media facilitates the promotion of anti-women hatred. Due to the investigations, it was discovered that some platforms’ algorithms were recommending increasingly sexist content to a troll account.
As a result, many platforms have promised to improve safety for women. But concerns have raised once again about the role social media plays in spreading anti-content. women’s
Gray Area in Presentations
The UK advocacy group Hope Not Hate, which applauded Meta’s ban last week, has been particularly vocal in their condemnation of Mr. Tate’s comments.
Mr. Tate “poses a genuine threat to young men, radicalising them towards extremism misogyny, racism, and homophobia,” as stated by the group’s director of research, Joe Mulhall.
We have provided substantial evidence to the major social media platforms, including Meta, regarding his activity and the reasons he must removed, he continued.
‘Absolutely A Misogynist’
Videos featuring Mr. Tate have gone viral on multiple social media sites, but especially on TikTok, where the #AndrewTate hashtag has viewed over 12.7 billion times. It’s important to note that this figure doesn’t just account for clips featuring Tate and his cheerleaders; it also includes videos in which the influencer criticised.
Several of his videos have viewed millions of times on YouTube. An interview with him on another YouTube channel revealed that he had previously claimed to be “without a doubt a misogynist, and furthermore, “I’m a realist, and when you’re a realist, you’re sexist.
You can’t be a realist and a feminist at the same time.” Later in the same video he said things like, “there is no such thing as an independent female,” and that women are “intrinsically lazy.”
A different video shows Mr. Tate saying, “If I have responsibility over her, then I must have a degree of authority.” When I asked him why, he said, “You can’t be responsible for a dog if it doesn’t obey you.”
Final Words
Andrew Tate, a controversial influencer, banned from multiple social media sites last month for infractions of their terms of service.
Still, nearly two weeks after these bans put in place, platforms flooded with clips of Tate making derogatory comments about women, highlighting what some media experts called a potentially dangerous system whose algorithm can manipulate to radicalize young men to adopt harmful views against women and the LGBTQ community.
Banishing divisive figures, as Tate’s case demonstrates, may make matters worse. After making an appearance on a U.K. reality show, kickboxer Tate became a household name. in 2016’s Big Brother, a reality television show.
After a video surfaced of him threatening a woman with a belt, he fired from the show. Tate claims that the interaction was voluntary.
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His recent internet fame was due to soundbites that widely disseminated on sites like TikTok. He can seen in these videos making sexist remarks while wearing only sunglasses and no shirt.
He has quoted as saying in interviews that she “belongs” to the man she dating. Tate implied in another video that women in committed relationships who use separate social media accounts are cheating.
On August 23, Tate posted a video to Vimeo in response to the bans, in which he claimed that his comments had misconstrued and that he had been “unfairly vilified.”
