For breaking its rules, Meta has banned influencer Andrew Tate from Facebook and Instagram.
The former kickboxer gained notoriety in 2016 after being fired from the reality TV program Big Brother due to a video that purported to show him assaulting a lady.
As a result of his comments that women should “carry responsibility” for being sexually attacked, he later gained prominence online and was banned from Twitter.
At the time his Instagram account was deleted, he had 4.7 million followers.
From a little over a million followers in June, that number increased quickly.
Meta said that the kickboxing celebrity had been removed from its platforms due to a violation of its standards regarding harmful organizations and people, but it made no more mention of this.
When he was kicked out of Big Brother, Mr. Tate claimed that the footage had been altered and described it as “a pure fake attempting to make me seem terrible.”
On the Meta ban, he has not yet made any remarks.
His remarks have prompted backlash online, especially from the UK advocacy organization Hope Not Hate, which supported the most recent ban.
Mr. Tate “poses a significant danger to young men, radicalizing them towards extremist sexism, racism, and homophobia,” according to Joe Mulhall, the organization’s head of research.
“We’ve given substantial proof regarding his activities and the reasons he has to be removed to the main social media networks, including Meta,” he said.
“We appreciate how quickly Meta removed Andrew Tate, and we’ll be pressuring TikTok to do the same. To stop the propagation of these extreme viewpoints, they need to take action right now.
Social media sites have seen a rise in the popularity of videos featuring Mr. Tate, especially on TikTok, where films tagged with the #AndrewTate hashtag have had more than 12.7 billion views.
Additionally, some of his most well-liked YouTube videos have received millions of views.
He claimed to be “definitely a misogynist” in one video when he was being interviewed by another YouTuber. He said, “I’m a realist, and when you’re a realism you’re sexist. You cannot be grounded in reality and not be sexist.
He further said that women are “intrinsically sluggish” and that there is “no such thing as an autonomous female” in the same video.
“If I have responsibility over her, then I must have a degree of power,” Mr. Tate stated in another video.
If a dog won’t obey you, you can’t be accountable for it, he said.