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 claim the banning of their accounts was a politically motivated campaign to suppress and destroy their reputations and livelihoods, not a neutral enforcement of platform rules.
They also claim Meta and TikTok defamed 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 is in the midst of new assault claims against the Tate brothers. Lauren Southern, a right-wing Canadian political influencer, writes in her Substack that she met Andrew Tate on a trip to Bucharest.
At 22, Southern approached Tate with a business proposition. She says on that 2018 trip, Tate choked and assaulted her while she was intoxicated. The self-published memoir is titled “This Is Not Real Life.”
Kickboxer and media influencer Andrew Tate is charged with rape, human trafficking, and more. He’s now facing three sex abuse legal battles in two countries.
Tate and his brother were taken into custody in Romania, where they live. Prosecutors say the Tates and two associates formed 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)]
