Center for Countering Digital Hate — Banned, but not gone: YouTube bans Andrew Tate

What the study found

This Center for Countering Digital Hate analysis, published on 18 June 2025, examined the 100 most-viewed YouTube videos featuring Andrew Tate content that were posted between 1 May 2024 and 1 May 2025 — nearly three years after YouTube had banned him. It reported that these videos had together accumulated nearly 54 million views, that close to 60% of them were assessed as violating YouTube's own hate speech policies, and that around one third carried advertisements. The analysis also found that all 100 videos remained viewable by accounts registered to 13-year-olds in the US and UK. ^[1]

nearly 60% of them were assessed as violating YouTube's own hate speech policies

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Why it matters here

This report is relevant to whether removing a prominent figure's own account actually limits the spread of their content. It documents that, years after Tate's channel was banned, reuploaded and derivative videos continued to reach a large audience on the same platform, some of it monetised and accessible to minors. That evidence complicates a simple reading of platform bans as an end point, and it bears directly on does deplatforming work?, where the question is how far a ban reduces reach in practice rather than only on paper.