Shortly after Twitted booted him off, Meta has removed Andrew Tate from Facebook and Instagram for violating their content policies.

Andrew Tate has been removed from Facebook and Instagram. The former kickboxer has been accruing intense backlash for his misogynistic views, including claiming that women should bear responsibility for being sexually assaulted. Tate’s removal from Instagram and Facebook comes shortly after he was banned from Twitter. 

Providing clarification on what led to Tate’s removal, Meta – parent brand to Facebook and Instagram – cited their policies on dangerous individuals and organisations. It did not, however, provide what content policy Tate was exactly in violation of. 

Tate’s removal hardly comes as a surprise, given the surmounting backlash against him and discussions around how his views – which range from the classically sexist ‘women can’t drive’ to the more toxic ‘men are allowed to cheat, but women aren’t’ – are impacting young impressionable men on social media platforms. 

On Tiktok, the hashtag #AndrewTate has accumulated almost 13 billion views. That’s nothing to say of his dangerously meteoric rise on other platforms – back in June, Tate only had one million followers on Twitter. That number grew to 4.7 million by August, when his account was removed. 

He has, in fact, been labelled the ‘most dangerous man on the internet,’ given how his followers continue to harass – and, in some cases, send threats of sexual assault and violence to – people who have criticised Tate. 

The Masked Singer judge Abbie Chatfield she had received harassing and disturbing messages from ‘teen boys’ for criticising Tate. 

“I’m getting DMs from what appear to be early teen boys saying, ‘I hope Andrew Tate destroys you,’ or things along that line. I also get comments calling me ‘Abbie Tate’, and comments on TikTok especially. That’s where it’s really, really rife.” Chatfield revealed during an appearance on The Project. 

Tate has been known to display a dangerous sense of ownership and disdain for women – even revelling in his status as a misogynist. 

“If I have responsibility over her, then I must have a degree of authority. You can’t be responsible for a dog if it doesn’t obey you.” he claimed in a YouTube video. 

With Tate’s removal from Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, pressure is mounting on Google to take action against his presence and content online. As of now, his hashtag is still active on Tiktok, and his videos rest at millions of views on YouTube. 

Chatfield, especially, took issue with the fact that Tiktok’s content policies had let Tate’s content propagate on the platform but removed perfectly acceptable content from other users. 

“I upload a TikTok in a white singlet, with a bra on, and it gets deleted in a minute, wouldn’t even go up,” Chatfield said on The Project. “But there’s endless videos of him saying that women are property, and extremely vile, misogynistic things. How can that slip through the cracks but me in a singlet can’t?”

Watch The Project dive into Andrew Tate and his content:

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