New research exposes YouTube’s failure to enforce its own policies, allowing banned influencer’s content to thrive, target users as young as 13, and make a profit 

WASHINGTON, DC – Wednesday, June 18, 2025: New research from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) reveals that YouTube continues to host and profit from misogynistic videos promoting Andrew Tate despite the platform’s much-publicized ban on the self-described misogynist. His content continues to reach millions through guest appearances on podcasts and fan-made videos, generating ad revenue from material that violates YouTube’s own hate speech policies. The research also reveals that this content remains fully accessible to users as young as 13. 

Imran Ahmed, CEO, the Center for Countering Digital Hate said:  

“Despite knowing Andrew Tate consistently violates its rules, YouTube created a system that profits from his dangerous persona while hiding behind the illusion that his content is banned. Parents will be horrified to learn that this extreme misogyny is reaching their sons’ feeds, and the platform isn’t doing anything about it. YouTube’s policies are a broken promise to users, parents, and society that it will safeguard against harmful content. At the bare minimum, users expect companies to adhere to their own rules. We’re demanding transparency and accountability.” 

The research looked into 100 of the most-viewed YouTube videos featuring Tate spreading misogynistic messages in the past year. Together, these videos racked up nearly 54 million views, with every single one viewable by accounts registered to 13-year-olds in both the US and UK. These findings raise urgent questions about YouTube’s enforcement of its own public policy, content moderation, and child safety practices. 

Nearly 60% of the 100 most-viewed videos with Tate’s content were found to violate YouTube’s policies on hate speech yet remain easily accessible. Additionally, a third of the 100 videos were monetized, featuring ads from major brands, showing that the platform not only amplifies Tate’s content, but directly profits from it.  

YouTube’s decision to ban Tate’s personal channel from the platform came in April 2022, declaring that the influencer was breaching its hate speech policies.  

By continuing to allow and monetize Tate’s content, the platform is enabling the spread of harmful, extremist ideology to the very audience most vulnerable to it.  

CCDH is demanding accountability and transparency from YouTube. At the bare minimum, we call on the platform to enforce its own policies.  

Notes to Editors 

• Full research can be found here.
• For more information or to arrange an interview, contact [email protected] 

Methodology 

• Researchers used the YouTube API to search for videos posted between 1 May 2024 and 1 May 2025, using the search term “Andrew Tate” and ranking by views. This returned a set of 1,889 videos with view figures.  
• They then gathered transcripts for the videos using YouTube’s automated caption generator feature. Of the original set, 342 videos were excluded where captions had been disabled or if the video was not in English.  
• A keyword search was used to narrow the videos down to those likely to be relevant to the project, leaving 1,014. The keywords used are: ‘wom(e|a)n’, ‘female’, ‘girl’, ‘her(\b|s)’, ‘she(\b|s)’, ‘femin’, ‘hooker’, ‘prostitute’, ‘porn’, ‘sex’, ‘boob’, ‘bikini’, ‘bra(\b|s)’, ‘kitchen’, ‘sandwich’, ‘wi(f|v)e’, ‘tran(ny|ni|ssexual|sgender)’, ‘skirt(\b|s)’, ‘machete’, ‘virgin’
• Researchers went through the list 1,014 videos by descending order of views to identify the most-viewed 100 videos containing misogyny, which can be defined as “the belief that women are a lesser gender than men and should always remain at a lower status than men”. This includes content which dehumanizes and subjugates women, including the use of slurs, or promotes harm against them.   
• Videos criticizing Tate and news coverage were excluded, leaving a final set of 100 videos in which Tate himself appears and expresses misogynist views. For each video featuring Tate expressing misogynist views, an example along with the timestamp was recorded.   
• Each example was then cross-referenced with YouTube’s policies on hate speech and any policy violations were recorded. To quality check the set, a second researcher reviewed the labels of the first. Where there was disagreement a team of three researchers discussed the video to reach a consensus agreement.   
• Each video marked as containing misogyny following quality checks was opened and checked for adverts. Videos containing in-stream adverts or sidebar adverts were counted.