Teenagers as young as 13 could view misogynistic Andrew Tate videos on YouTube, report finds

Teenagers as young as 13 could access 100 of the most-viewed videos featuring misogynistic content from Andrew Tate on YouTube, a new report has found, amid a push to have the video platform included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban. Researchers from the US-based Center for Countering Digital Hate set up accounts purporting to be 13-year-old boys and found the videos from the rightwing influencer, whose own YouTube account was banned in 2022, were accessible to those accounts in the US and the UK, meaning they would also have likely been accessible in Australia. Their report analysed nearly 1,900 videos of Tate from YouTube between May 2024 and May 2025, and filtered them down to the 100 most-viewed videos containing misogyny, accounting for nearly 54m views on the site. In one video, Tate says: “Nowadays it’s gotten so fucked up – you got the men and the women, the husband and wife, all together on the same table. The men are trying to have a conversation, some dude’s wife fucking pipes up.” Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email In another video, Tate says: “Have a solid bottom bitch, if you have one girl who truly is out …
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