Banned But Not Gone: YouTube profits from Andrew Tate's misogyny
YouTube still hosts and monetizes Andrew Tate's misogynistic content despite banning his account.
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CCDH analyzed the 100 most-viewed YouTube videos featuring Andrew Tate's misogynistic content posted over the preceding year, despite YouTube having banned Tate's own channel, examining video accessibility to minors, policy compliance, and advertising presence.
The 100 videos had accumulated 54 million views combined. All were accessible to test accounts simulating 13-year-old boys in the UK and US, and 98 were accessible in Ireland and Germany. Sixty-five of the videos originated from fan accounts rather than Tate's own, and researchers judged 58 to violate YouTube's hate speech policies; of those policy-violating videos, 31 carried brand advertising, indicating monetization of rule-breaking content.
The report concludes that YouTube's ban on Tate's account has done little to curb the distribution of his content through re-uploads and podcast clips, and that the platform's continued ad placement on and youth accessibility to this material represents an unresolved child-safety and enforcement gap.
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