TikTok ‘failing to act’ as Andrew Tate videos still seen by children as young as 13

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Callum Hood, the organisation’s head of research, said: “We know teens as young as 13 are being served content featuring Tate from experiments we carried out to see what videos TikTok’s algorithm recommends to its youngest users.” However, he warned that TikTok had been fined by UK regulators for failing to implement age controls, raising questions about how many children under the age of 13 could have seen Tate’s material. open image in gallery The former kickboxing world champion turned ‘success coach’ has been banned by TikTok Mr Hood argued social media platforms continue to play a big role in bringing Tate’s content to a bigger audience as he explained the influencer is “still getting a leg up from platforms”. “We have done research showing that Tate content is still recommended by mainstream platforms like TikTok within the first hour of creating a new account that the platform understands to belong to a young man, despite those platforms saying Tate is de-platformed.” Data shows TikTok videos posted with the Tate hashtag have been viewed one billion times by Britons in the past year and 13 billion times around the world. Joe Mulhall, of anti-fascism charity Hope Not Hate, said even though Mr Tate’s accounts have been removed from TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, “proxy accounts still churn out his videos”.