Kickboxer Andrew Tate BANNED from Instagram and Facebook after sharing disturbing views about women in online videos

, Meta said it had removed the British-American kickboxer from its platforms for violating its policies on dangerous organisations and individuals.

He had more than 4.6million Instagram followers at the time his Instagram account was banned.

Tate, who was born in Luton, now lives in Romania.

His views have been described as extreme misogyny by domestic abuse charities - and concerns have been raised about the radicalisation of men and boys to copy him offline.

Videos of him on TikTok have been watched 11.6billion times.

But the charity White Ribbon, which works to end male violence against women, has called for TikTok to remove Tate from its platform over his “extremely misogynistic” comments.

In a previous interview with another YouTuber, Tate admitted he was "absolutely a misogynist".

And in a now deleted YouTube video, he claimed part of the reason he moved to Romania is because he believed cops in Eastern Europe would be less likely to pursue rape allegations.

But Tate has said he was "playing a comedic character" and that his videos had been "taken out of context".

He said: "It is very unfortunate that old videos of me, where I was playing a comedic character, have been taken out of context and amplified to the point where people believe absolutely false narratives about me.

"In the last two weeks I dedicated over 1million dollars to charities supporting women. I posted this on Instagram, but Instagram ignored it. 

"I have made videos explaining that my mother is my hero, and how men should protect and provide for women. Instagram ignored it.

"Internet sensationalism has purported the idea that im anti women when nothing could be further from the truth.

"This is simply hate mobs who are uninterested in the facts of the matter trying to personally attack me.

"I have nothing but positivity to spread regarding all PEOPLE, whether male OR female, and this has been reflected in all of my recent messaging and posts."

Back in 2016, Tate was kicked out of Big Brother after a video emerged of him hitting a woman with a belt.

And in 2017, he was slammed by mental health charities for saying depression "isn’t real";.

It comes hours after YouTuber Daz Black slammed "monster" Tate in a video showing the kickboxer's misogynistic rants.

Daz, who has more than seven million subscribers on the platform, said he was recently approached by multiple women with alarming accusations against Tate.

He said he received "disturbing" videos of Tate - and described the kickboxer as "monster".

In the video, the YouTuber reacts to Tate's sickening videos of how he treats women and how he believes other men should treat women.

Daz fumes: "This is not the behaviour of a man... he gets off on hurting women and making them feel vulnerable.

"This is a very unhealthy man with a very unhealthy addiction to domination of women."