Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, file lawsuits in California, suing Meta and TikTok for kicking the pair off their platforms in 2022.
The lawsuits allege defamation and unlawful deplatforming.
They argue that their accounts were banned as part of a politically motivated effort to damage their reputations and livelihoods rather than being a result of impartial enforcement of platform rules.
Moreover, they contend that Meta and TikTok maligned them by making “reckless and inflammatory statements portraying Tate as a sex trafficker—without evidence, without trial, and without due process.”
The brothers are seeking over $50 million in compensatory damages from each company.
This occurs amid new accusations of assault against the Tate brothers. Lauren Southern, a Canadian political influencer with right-wing views, mentions in her Substack that she encountered Andrew Tate during a visit to Bucharest.
At the age of 22, Southern presented Tate with a business proposal. She recounts that during that 2018 visit, Tate choked and assaulted her while she was under the influence. Her self-published memoir is titled “This Is Not Real Life.”
Andrew Tate, a kickboxer and media influencer, has been charged with rape, human trafficking, and additional offenses. He now finds himself embroiled in three sex abuse legal cases across two nations.
Tate and his brother were apprehended in Romania, where they reside. Prosecutors allege that the Tates, along with two associates, established an organized criminal group to groom and sexually traffic women in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Romania.
The indictment names seven women who say the Tate brothers recruited them with false promises, including love and marriage, but instead took them to buildings where they intimidated them and watched over them constantly, forcing them into debt and pornography.
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[Feature Photo: Andrew Tate, left, and his brother Tristan stand outside a police detention facility in Bucharest, Romania, after their release from prison on Friday March 31, 2023. An official on Friday said Tate, the divisive internet personality who has spent months in a Romanian jail on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, has won an appeal to replace his detention with house arrest. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)]
