The Abuse That Fuelled Andrew Tate’s Media Empire

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The New Yorker investigative reporter Heidi Blake joins Tyler Foggatt to debate her reporting on Andrew Tate, the British American influencer and figurehead of the manosphere. They discuss Tate’s rise to prominence, the media empire he constructed by glorifying concepts about male dominance and feminine subjugation, and the allegations of rape, assault, coercion, and intercourse trafficking which have adopted him and his brother, Tristan, throughout a number of international locations. Drawing on leaked paperwork and messages, interviews with each Tates, and testimony from girls who say they have been victimized by the brothers, Blake explains how Tate’s on-line persona displays a for much longer historical past of alleged abuse and exploitation. Blake and Foggatt additionally discover Tate’s rising ties to folks in Donald Trump’s orbit, and whether or not his assist for Trump and the MAGA motion helped form the political response to the investigations in opposition to him.

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