Andrew Tate – the controversial British-American influencer, and self-described misogynist – has millions of followers around the world.

He often tells young men that they’re victims of a feminized society and that they need to reclaim their “natural masculine imperative for power”.

Tate became even more famous after he and his brother were subject to a police raid on their Romanian property in 2022, due to suspected human trafficking. In the years after, they’ve also been investigated for rape and sexual assault. The brothers deny all wrongdoing.

Heidi Blake is an investigative reporter who recently wrote a piece for The New Yorker that meticulously peels back the industry that Andrew Tate built up: from an online porn empire, to a so-called educational network for men to learn how to recruit women into “sexual slavery”. She walks us through her findings.

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