The purpose of this update is to inform our supporters of a pivot in our campaign. We will now be heavily focusing on urging Google to cease allowing Andrew Tate to run advertisements for his programs.
This comes after some recent success with our campaigning of YouTube. This would not have been possible without all of our petition supporters, so thank you all. Our major achievements to date since the birth of this petition in July:
- Successfully urged payment processor companies to distance themselves from the Tates. This resulted in them only being able to accept crypto payments for many of the months that have followed.
- Successfully encouraged Apple and Google to remove The Real World app from their app stores in September. They have only been able to operate on desktop since.
- Now in recent weeks, YouTube have removed many channels that were promoting The Real World that amassed over 1.3 billion views in total. This included the main YouTube channel for The Real World, and Justin Wallers channel, which was used heavily for recruitment.
Now we ask, if Google removed The Real World app and YouTube cleaned up much of the recruitment from its platform, why are they allowing The Real World to run paid advertisements? If this is about the protection of children, they MUST be consistent.
This next phase of our campaign is crucial - please click this link to share this petition on all of your social media pages:
Thank you again to all of our supporters. We have achieved some great things, yet there is so much more to do. I will be sure to keep you all updated.
Regards, Gadget