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It’s been a helluva few days for Andrew Tate. Over the weekend, the former reality-TV star-turned-social-media influencer was kicked off Facebook and Instagram. He then shut down a money-making program for his followers, Hustler’s University, with the platform saying has no future. Now he’s also been booted off TikTok.
The British-American former kickboxer, 35, had amassed millions of followers across a sprawling social media empire—one acolyte dubbed him “the king of toxic masculinity.” On TikTok alone, videos of him had racked up over 12 billion views, with more than a billion of those coming in just a single week this month, according to The Observer. But Big Tech’s tolerance of the influencer—who has previously described himself as “absolutely a misogynist”—has unraveled even faster than his staggering popularity has accelerated.
TikTok removed Tate’s account for breaching its policies regarding “content that attacks, threatens, incites violence against, or otherwise dehumanizes an individual or a group” based on attributes including sex, a spokesperson told The Washington Post in a statement. The self-promoting “success coach” was also kicked off Facebook and Instagram for violating rules around dangerous organizations and individuals, a Meta spokesperson told NBC Friday.