Andrew Tate’s Downfall and its Implications
Andrew Tate, a social media sensation for a short period of time has been banned from YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. The bans were placed due to a campaign that was touted Tate as being damaging to his primarily young audience. Tate has also been closing his Hustlers University affiliate marketing program right after the ban took place.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Tate was closing his Hustlers University affiliate marketing program right after ban
- They were being encouraged to post videos of Tate across social media
- Tate had 4.7 million followers on Instagram before being discharged
The program that helped Tate amass his massive following had allowed members by providing them the chance to earn commission by signing up new individuals to the scheme. While they were being encouraged to post videos of Tate across social media to garner additional referrals. The monthly fee for the course was $49, and Tate mentioned that the course had 8,000 members.
Social media spokespeople had released statements on Tate’s ban as his exclusion has been seen as arguable.
As per the Meta’s spokesperson which owned both Instagram and Facebook has mentioned that the company had removed Tate’s official accounts from the social media platforms as he was violating the company’s policies on dangerous organizations and people. Well, the Meta spokesperson had confirmed that the ban was absolutely permanent. Tate had 4.7 million followers on Instagram before being discharged.
Along with this a TikTok spokesperson has also mentioned that following an investigation by the platform, an account belonging to Tate has been banned permanently. TikTok has been using a software in order to identify and to take away any further uploads of videos which were found to violate its Community Guidelines.
The platform would also flag specific content therefore it would not be recommended to users' “For You” feeds.
The Tiktok spokesperson has mentioned that 'Misogyny was a hateful ideology that would not be tolerated on TikTok.' The spokesperson had added 'Our investigation into this content was current, as we would continue to remove violative accounts and videos and would pursue measures to strengthen our enforcement, which would include our detection models, against this kind of content.'
As YouTube would mention that it would follow suit in forbidding channels related to Andrew Tate. It would include the channel TateSpeech that had over 744,000 subscribers.
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