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Time Business News
31-07-2025
- General
- Time Business News
The Tate Family: A Legacy of Influence, Fame, and Controversy
The Tate family has gained global attention over the past decade due to the rise of several of its members in public, professional, and digital spheres. Known for their distinctive personalities and achievements, the Tates have become a topic of fascination, admiration, and debate across various platforms. This article delves into their family background, key members, public image, and lasting legacy. The Tate family has a diverse and international heritage. The family is primarily known through the success and public persona of Emory Andrew Tate Jr., a celebrated African-American chess master, and his sons Andrew and Tristan Tate. Emory Tate was born in Chicago and was recognized for his strategic brilliance in chess. He served in the U.S. Air Force and was a respected figure in the chess community, earning recognition for defeating several international masters in his career. His legacy of intelligence, discipline, and resilience shaped the values of his children. The family later moved to the United Kingdom, where Andrew and Tristan were raised by their British mother. Despite humble beginnings, the Tate brothers built a distinct reputation that launched them into the limelight. Emory Tate was a gifted chess player and linguist. His impact went far beyond the chessboard. He was admired for his quick wit, commanding presence, and independent mindset. Emory's approach to life was rooted in logic, discipline, and defiance of conventional thinking. Though he passed away in 2015, Emory's influence is still evident in his sons, particularly in their confidence, competitiveness, and refusal to conform. He laid the intellectual foundation for their future success. Unlike her brothers, Janine Tate chose a more private and traditional career path. She is a qualified attorney and lives in the United States. Her focus is on legal practice, education, and family life. Janine does not engage in the media presence or controversies associated with her brothers. She represents a more grounded and conventional dimension of the Tate family. Her choice to stay away from the public eye reflects her differing values, which emphasize privacy, service, and professionalism. Andrew Tate, often the most widely recognized member of the family, rose to fame initially as a professional kickboxer. He won multiple world championships in the sport, establishing a reputation for mental toughness and physical dominance. However, his fame skyrocketed after transitioning into the online world. Through podcasts, social media platforms, and interviews, Andrew became a controversial internet personality. He promotes a philosophy of self-reliance, masculinity, and financial independence through his online ventures, including Hustler's University. While many admire him for his business acumen and bold personality, critics accuse him of promoting misogyny and extreme views. Andrew has faced bans from several social media platforms and has been involved in legal proceedings, which further polarized public opinion. Tristan Tate, Andrew's younger brother, also has a background in kickboxing and digital entrepreneurship. Compared to Andrew, Tristan maintains a more reserved public image. However, he plays a critical role in their business empire. He is often described as intelligent, strategic, and loyal. Tristan shares Andrew's views on success, personal freedom, and societal roles. The two brothers have built a lifestyle brand that appeals to young men seeking direction, success, and influence in today's world. The Tate family exhibits a complex dynamic. With each member following a different life path, public perception varies widely. While Andrew and Tristan attract fame, criticism, and influence in equal measure, Janine and the legacy of Emory provide balance and credibility. Family unity appears to be a core value, especially between the brothers. They often speak of loyalty, strength, and family responsibility. However, the differences in personal values between Janine and her brothers hint at internal philosophical divides. Andrew and Tristan Tate have built a digital empire, offering mentorship programs, courses, and motivational content aimed at young men. Their business model relies heavily on digital marketing, affiliate promotion, and influencer branding. Their ventures include: Hustler's University – A membership-based platform teaching financial skills. – A membership-based platform teaching financial skills. The Real World – A continuation of their educational offerings for men. – A continuation of their educational offerings for men. Cobra Tate Enterprises – Involving luxury lifestyle promotion and consulting. While these platforms have drawn thousands of followers, they have also faced criticism for promoting extreme ideologies and unregulated educational content. The Tate family has undeniably left a mark on today's digital and cultural landscape. Andrew Tate, in particular, has sparked a global conversation on masculinity, gender roles, and personal development. While many view the brothers as role models, others raise concerns about their influence on younger audiences. Supporters argue that the Tate brothers empower men to take control of their lives, focus on fitness, financial literacy, and self-confidence. Detractors warn against their rigid worldview, often labeling it as regressive or divisive. The Tate family remains in the spotlight. Their future will depend largely on how they adapt to ongoing legal, social, and media scrutiny. Andrew and Tristan continue to grow their digital audience, while Janine follows a quieter professional life. The Tate story is still unfolding. As public figures, Andrew and Tristan have the opportunity to evolve their messaging and expand their ventures. Meanwhile, the legacy of Emory Tate and the grounded life of Janine offer a fuller picture of a complex family. The Tate family embodies a rare blend of brilliance, ambition, and controversy. From Emory Tate's intellectual prowess to Andrew and Tristan's bold entrepreneurship, and Janine's professional integrity—the Tates continue to spark conversations across the globe. Whether admired or criticized, their influence is undeniable. The family represents different responses to modern challenges—through intellect, fight, ambition, or quiet professionalism—and continues to leave a lasting impact on public discourse. TIME BUSINESS NEWS
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Andrew Tate: What to Know About His Return to the US, Sex Trafficking Charges, and Ties to Trump
This article was originally published by The 19th. Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate, brothers who have made millions off their work as online 'manosphere' influencers, arrived by private plane in Florida on Thursday after Romanian authorities lifted travel restrictions against them. The brothers, who hold American and British citizenship, were indicted in Romania last year on a variety of charges, including forming an organized criminal group to sexually exploit women in Romania, the United States, United Kingdom and other countries; human trafficking; the trafficking of minors; sex with a minor and money laundering. Andrew Tate was also charged with rape. In a statement, Romanian authorities said that although they were allowed to leave the country, Andrew and Tristan Tate are still required to appear 'before the judicial bodies upon each summons' or else face 'a stricter deprivation of liberty measure.' The brothers have consistently denied all allegations against them. In a post on social media, Joseph McBride, the brothers' U.S.-based attorney, said, 'Romania rightly decided it didn't have the evidence needed to hold them any longer.' While it is unclear why they were allowed to leave Romania, why they are headed back to the United States and what, if any, actions will be taken against them once they are on American soil, The 19th explains who the Tate brothers are and why this latest chapter has brought them back into the news. Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist and 'king of toxic masculinity,' is a 38-year-old former championship kickboxer who first gained broad attention when he appeared on the British reality show 'Big Brother' in 2016. Tate first came under scrutiny for past homophobic and racist Tweets, which were discovered while he was on the show. He was kicked off the show before the season ended; initial reports said his removal happened because a video of him beating a woman with a belt surfaced during filming, though Tate and the woman said the beating was consensual. Later reporting indicated that Tate was removed from the show after producers learned of an ongoing investigation by British authorities over an alleged rape. (The case was ultimately closed in 2019, with no charges filed against him.) By 2022, Tate had become an Internet phenomenon, building notoriety and accumulating extraordinary wealth through his social media work. Tate founded Hustler's University, which charged a monthly fee to teach young men how to make money outside of traditional employment and was eventually shut down under multiple accusations of it being a pyramid scheme; The Real World, an app-based platform offering instruction to teenage boys on how to become 'real men,' which Google and Apple removed from their app stores in 2023; and The War Room, a self-described 'global network' intended to 'free the modern man from socially induced incarceration' that later faced accusations of grooming women into sex work through its 'Pimpin' Hoes Degree' course, aimed at teaching men to manipulate and socially isolate women. In 2024, Tate also launched a meme coin called DADDY — 'for the patriarchy,' he wrote, adding, 'make me a f***ing sandwich females.' Tate built a reputation as a key influence in the 'manosphere' community, vocal and ever-present with his far-right political views and personal ideology about women's inferiority to men. He has claimed that sexual assault victims bear the responsibility for what has been done against them and has said that women become the property of their husbands after marriage. Tate has maintained a massive online presence throughout his time in the public eye. He has over 10.7 million followers on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, which banned him multiple times before being bought by Elon Musk in 2022 and changing its name. Musk reinstated Tate's X account when he assumed ownership of the platform. He was also banned from Instagram in 2022, when he had over 4.6 million followers. He has since been reinstated on the platform; currently, he has over 773,000 followers there, with hundreds of thousands more on YouTube. In a 2021 podcast interview, Tate boasted, 'You can't slander me because I will state right now that I am absolutely sexist and I'm absolutely misogynist, and I have f**k you money and you can't take that away.' The Tate brothers moved to Romania from the United Kingdom. At the time, Andrew Tate talked about it being less likely that he would face rape charges in Romania because of the evidentiary standards there. He also criticized the #MeToo movement, grounding his criticism on his belief that women could ruin a man's life on a whim if they so desired. The United States embassy in Romania received a report in April 2022 that an American citizen was being held against her will at a property owned by Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan. Romanian police raided the property and a webcam studio run by the brothers, finding four women, two of whom said they were being held against their will. Several months later, the Romanian government arrested and charged the brothers and their two female accomplices on charges of human trafficking and forming an organized crime group. In August 2024, Romanian officials expanded their investigation into the Tates to involve allegations from 35 other women; new allegations included human trafficking, trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor, influencing statements and money laundering. Earlier this month, Andrew Tate tweeted, 'The Tates will be free, Trump is the president. The good old days are back. And they will be better than ever. Hold on.' The Tates have been under house arrest since their detainment by Romanian officials in 2022. The Financial Times reported that the Trump administration had asked Romanian officials to return the Tates' passports to them and allow them to travel while the criminal case against them proceeds in court. Romanian Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu told The Financial Times that Trump's presidential envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, had raised the Tates' case with him. In a statement to The Financial Times, Grenell said, 'I support the Tate brothers as evident by my publicly available tweets.' Additionally, Paul Ingrassia, a former Tate attorney, is now a White House liaison for the Department of Justice. Ingrassia has previously said that the Tate brothers were 'sacrificed on the altar of the Matrix under the banner of egregious crimes they never committed'. Andrew Tate has been friends with President Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. since 2016; the younger Trump has called the brothers' detention in Romania 'absolute insanity.' While campaigning this summer, Trump and now Vice President JD Vance appeared on podcasts of frequent Tate collaborators and supporters Adin Ross and the Nelk Boys. Elon Musk, the tech mogul who is now the head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the new Trump administration and has been tasked with efforts to slash federal spending and the federal workforce, has also spoken out in support of Andrew Tate before, voicing his support for Tate's past proclamations of intent to run for prime minister of the United Kingdom. The Tates have espoused on X conspiracy theories about USAID, the same agency that Musk has made a key target of DOGE and one that he has called the 'propaganda arm of The Matrix.' Just last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, Musk claimed that his work with the administration was an effort in 'fighting the Matrix.' Asked on Thursday about the Tate brothers returning to the U.S., Trump said: 'I didn't know anything about that.' Stay up-to-date with the politics team. Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take Originally Appeared on Teen Vogue Want more U.S. government coverage? 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Vox
02-03-2025
- Politics
- Vox
Andrew Tate, the accused human trafficker with Trump's support, returns to the US
Andrew Tate made his name as a misogynist podcast star, but has more recently been known as an alleged rapist and human trafficker as he awaits criminal trial in Romania with his brother Tristan. Last week, the Financial Times reported that the Trump administration, through special envoy Richard Grenell, had tried to pressure the Romanian government to lift travel restrictions on the brothers. On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that Romanian authorities had lifted the travel restrictions on the brothers and that the Tates had flown to the United States. Andrew Tate, whose online course 'Hustler's University' morphed into a platform with nearly a million users, became a powder keg among far-right media influencers in the early 2020s due to his explicitly sexist worldview and its profound influence over millions of teen boys and young men. This latest high-profile turn in Tate's ongoing legal saga has again brought the horrifying allegations against him to the forefront — this time with apparent approval from the US government. It's also a reminder of the cultural reach of the so-called manosphere that Tate helped popularize. Tate's rise started with a successful kickboxing career, was followed by his removal from the British version of Big Brother , and culminated in a hugely popular podcast that anointed him the 'King of Toxic Masculinity.' As Rebecca Jennings explained for Vox in 2022, his 'inflammatory diatribes against women, whom he compares to property' became viral fodder on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. He was born in the US, raised in the UK, but now lives in Romania — first moving there in part because, he said, 'the rape laws are more lenient,' but has stayed since; following his arrest, he has largely not been allowed to leave the country. Tate helped bring to mainstream concerns about the 'manosphere,' the term for the internet's loose network of right-wing male influencers and their associated communities. Early on, Tate seemed to be such an obviously extremist node of the manosphere that he should be, as Jennings wrote, easy to ignore. But Tate's confident, blatant misogyny proved wildly popular: His dictums, which ranged from bragging about never having read a book to flaunting an aggressive emotional and physical dominance over women, seemed to enthrall boys and men who admired him for his flashy lifestyle, vaunted wealth, and commitment to the bit. Tate's maxims swept across teen culture, generating horror stories from parents and teachers about his seemingly pervasive and pernicious influence. Originally, Tate presented his schtick as pure fiction, a deliberately exaggerated regressive persona. It soon appeared that was far from the case, as allegations against Tate and his brother began mounting. Romanian officials have pursued Andrew and Tristan Tate since April 2022, when they first raided one of the pair's mansions after receiving a tip that the Tates had allegedly abducted a woman and were holding her there against her will. The following year, the brothers and two Romanian accomplices were indicted on charges of rape, forming a criminal gang, and human trafficking. Authorities alleged that Andrew and Tristan Tate had trafficked seven women from the US and the UK to Romania by grooming them and subjecting them to physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. (The brothers promptly responded with a civil suit against two of their alleged victims.) In early 2024, the two faced new UK allegations of human trafficking, stemming from an investigation launched more than a decade prior. Then, in August, the Tates faced additional charges of human trafficking after police raided their estate again and detained six people. The brothers have also faced multiple civil lawsuits filed by alleged victims. One such woman recently filed a suit against them in Florida, claiming they defamed her after she agreed to be a witness in the Romanian criminal trial. Despite the severity and breadth of the charges against them, things have been going fairly well for the Tates. Last month, Andrew Tate was released from house arrest, though he and his brother are still not allowed to leave Romania and are under court supervision. This followed the return of their luxury assets in October, and a November appeals court ruling that major evidence in the first Romanian criminal case, including testimony from alleged victims, was inadmissible. A judge, citing flaws in the indictment, sent the case back to prosecutors for revision. This left the case on shaky ground — and that was before the American government came calling. Romania's foreign minister, Emil Hurezeanu, dismissed his conversation last week with Grenell, which took place briefly during the Munich Security Conference, as 'just a repeat of a known stance.' Grenell's position as 'special missions envoy' seems to be an informal one based mainly on his status as a longtime Trump loyalist and his previous role as ambassador to Germany, but he's made his interest in the Tate brothers public — and explicitly political. On February 3, before the trip to Munich, Grenell quote-tweeted a reply to Tristan Tate on X and alleged that Romania had used funds from the beleaguered USAID agency to target conservatives, saying the program was 'weaponized against people and politicians who weren't woke.' There appears to be no factual basis for this claim, but it bolsters the Tates' longtime argument that they are the victims of a political witch hunt. 'I support the Tate brothers as evident by my publicly available tweets,' Grenell told the Financial Times. According to a statement issued by Romanian officials to the AP, the brothers remain under Romanian judicial control while they await trial. The American government's role in the lifted travel ban is unclear. Andrew and Tristan Tate now face three different criminal cases and multiple civil lawsuits in different countries, most for extremely serious allegations of violence and sexual abuse against women. Their most expansive alleged crime, human trafficking, became part of Andrew Tate's online brand. He actually sold an online course to his followers on how to do it, what he called the 'Pimping Hoes Degree.' Experts say that the techniques Tate taught in this course and elsewhere could be seen as a textbook for how to engage in literal, criminal human trafficking — and the messages Tate espouses across the manosphere are replete with boasting about violence towards women, sexual assault, grooming underage girls, and emotional abuse. The 'Andrew Tate effect' on young men has been so profound that counteracting it has become a mission across multiple public service sectors, from education to public health. Researchers in Sweden found that boys exposed to manosphere influencers were more likely to dehumanize women, while researchers in Australia found 'widespread experience of sexual harassment, sexism, and misogyny perpetrated by boys towards women teachers, and the ominous presence of Andrew Tate shaping their behaviour.' Concerns about Tate encompass real concerns about public safety, and whether boys who have prolonged exposure to him could become more aggressive toward the women around them. At the same time, Tate and others in the manosphere have been credited with helping swing the 2024 US election resoundingly for Trump among young men. Tate is already a manifestation of extreme misogyny, the worst of what the manosphere has wrought — and his cultural, and now political, elevation is part of a larger, grimmer regression we are perhaps only just at the beginning of.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The 19th Explains: Andrew Tate, the ‘king of toxic masculinity,' and his return to the U.S.
Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate, brothers who have made millions off their work as online 'manosphere' influencers, arrived by private plane in Florida on Thursday after Romanian authorities lifted travel restrictions against them. The brothers, who hold American and British citizenship, were indicted in Romania last year on a variety of charges, including forming an organized criminal group to sexually exploit women in Romania, the United States, United Kingdom and other countries; human trafficking; the trafficking of minors; sex with a minor and money laundering. Andrew Tate was also charged with rape. In a statement, Romanian authorities said that although they were allowed to leave the country, Andrew and Tristan Tate are still required to appear 'before the judicial bodies upon each summons' or else face 'a stricter deprivation of liberty measure.' The brothers have consistently denied all allegations against them. In a post on social media, Joseph McBride, the brothers' U.S.-based attorney, said, 'Romania rightly decided it didn't have the evidence needed to hold them any longer.' While it is unclear why they were allowed to leave Romania, why they are headed back to the United States and what, if any, actions will be taken against them once they are on American soil, The 19th explains who the Tate brothers are and why this latest chapter has brought them back into the news. Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist and 'king of toxic masculinity,' is a 38-year-old former championship kickboxer who first gained broad attention when he appeared on the British reality show 'Big Brother' in 2016. Tate first came under scrutiny for past homophobic and racist Tweets, which were discovered while he was on the show. He was kicked off the show before the season ended; initial reports said his removal happened because a video of him beating a woman with a belt surfaced during filming, though Tate and the woman said the beating was consensual. Later reporting indicated that Tate was removed from the show after producers learned of an ongoing investigation by British authorities over an alleged rape. (The case was ultimately closed in 2019, with no charges filed against him.) By 2022, Tate had become an Internet phenomenon, building notoriety and accumulating extraordinary wealth through his social media work. Tate founded Hustler's University, which charged a monthly fee to teach young men how to make money outside of traditional employment and was eventually shut down under multiple accusations of it being a pyramid scheme; The Real World, an app-based platform offering instruction to teenage boys on how to become 'real men,' which Google and Apple removed from their app stores in 2023; and The War Room, a self-described 'global network' intended to 'free the modern man from socially induced incarceration' that later faced accusations of grooming women into sex work through its 'Pimpin' Hoes Degree' course, aimed at teaching men to manipulate and socially isolate women. In 2024, Tate also launched a meme coin called DADDY — 'for the patriarchy,' he wrote, adding, 'make me a fucking sandwich females.' Tate built a reputation as a key influence in the 'manosphere' community, vocal and ever-present with his far-right political views and personal ideology about women's inferiority to men. He has claimed that sexual assault victims bear the responsibility for what has been done against them and has said that women become the property of their husbands after marriage. Tate has maintained a massive online presence throughout his time in the public eye. He has over 10.7 million followers on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, which banned him multiple times before being bought by Elon Musk in 2022 and changing its name. Musk reinstated Tate's X account when he assumed ownership of the platform. He was also banned from Instagram in 2022, when he had over 4.6 million followers. He has since been reinstated on the platform; currently, he has over 773,000 followers there, with hundreds of thousands more on YouTube. In a 2021 podcast interview, Tate boasted, 'You can't slander me because I will state right now that I am absolutely sexist and I'm absolutely misogynist, and I have fuck you money and you can't take that away.' The Tate brothers moved to Romania from the United Kingdom. At the time, Andrew Tate talked about it being less likely that he would face rape charges in Romania because of the evidentiary standards there. He also criticized the #MeToo movement, grounding his criticism on his belief that women could ruin a man's life on a whim if they so desired. The United States embassy in Romania received a report in April 2022 that an American citizen was being held against her will at a property owned by Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan. Romanian police raided the property and a webcam studio run by the brothers, finding four women, two of whom said they were being held against their will. Several months later, the Romanian government arrested and charged the brothers and their two female accomplices on charges of human trafficking and forming an organized crime group. In August 2024, Romanian officials expanded their investigation into the Tates to involve allegations from 35 other women; new allegations included human trafficking, trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor, influencing statements and money laundering. Earlier this month, Andrew Tate tweeted, 'The Tates will be free, Trump is the president. The good old days are back. And they will be better than ever. Hold on.' The Tates have been under house arrest since their detainment by Romanian officials in 2022. The Financial Times reported that the Trump administration had asked Romanian officials to return the Tates' passports to them and allow them to travel while the criminal case against them proceeds in court. Romanian Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu told The Financial Times that Trump's presidential envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, had raised the Tates' case with him. In a statement to The Financial Times, Grenell said, 'I support the Tate brothers as evident by my publicly available tweets.' Additionally, Paul Ingrassia, a former Tate attorney, is now a White House liaison for the Department of Justice. Ingrassia has previously said that the Tate brothers were 'sacrificed on the altar of the Matrix under the banner of egregious crimes they never committed'. Andrew Tate has been friends with President Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. since 2016; the younger Trump has called the brothers' detention in Romania 'absolute insanity.' While campaigning this summer, Trump and now Vice President JD Vance appeared on podcasts of frequent Tate collaborators and supporters Adin Ross and the Nelk Boys. Elon Musk, the tech mogul who is now the head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the new Trump administration and has been tasked with efforts to slash federal spending and the federal workforce, has also spoken out in support of Andrew Tate before, voicing his support for Tate's past proclamations of intent to run for prime minister of the United Kingdom. The Tates have espoused on X conspiracy theories about USAID, the same agency that Musk has made a key target of DOGE and one that he has called the 'propaganda arm of The Matrix.' Just last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, Musk claimed that his work with the administration was an effort in 'fighting the Matrix.' Asked on Thursday about the Tate brothers returning to the U.S., Trump said: 'I didn't know anything about that.' The post The 19th Explains: Andrew Tate, the 'king of toxic masculinity,' and his return to the U.S. appeared first on The 19th. 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Sky News
27-02-2025
- Business
- Sky News
How Andrew Tate's business made millions - despite sex trafficking charges
Andrew Tate has continued to make millions of dollars a month from his controversial online platform The Real World - despite facing sex trafficking charges in Romania. A massive cyberhack in late 2024 exposed how the site - which promises to teach followers how to get rich - was still generating huge sums from thousands of subscribers, even with the brothers on house arrest. Andrew and Tristan Tate arrived in Florida on Thursday as free men after a travel ban in Romania was lifted. Sky News analysis reveals that even as the Tate brothers were en route to the US in a private plane, the money was pouring in. In a two-hour window between 12 and 5pm UK time on Thursday, Tate's website reported almost $25,000 (£19,737) in sales of his online courses. This includes 82 purchases by people in the UK, seven by Romanians and 161 by Americans. Reviews posted on the website are another indicator of Tate's income. A total of 1,171 reviews were posted for his courses in the past 37 days. Even if every reviewer opted for the cheapest option - at $49.99 (£40) a month - that's still at least $1,580 (£1,248) coming in a day. Image: Credit: The Real World The 2024 hack Hackers exposed details from almost 800,000 users of The Real World. The compromised data included more than 300,000 unique email addresses that appeared to belong to people who had been removed from the main database after they stopped paying their subscriptions. The anonymous hacktivists said The Real World failed to implement basic security protocols. They said they managed to gather data including usernames, emails and chat logs for current and former members. "Considering how much this platform promotes 'financial intelligence,' it's shocking how little intelligence was put into protecting its users," one hacker reportedly wrote in a message shared online. Whistleblower sites published the complete dataset, saying that "the logs originate from the platform's 221 public and 395 private chat servers, distributed across a dozen 'campuses'". Andrew Tate dismissed the hack on X, saying the chats were "public" and questioned whether it could be considered a hack. But he did not address the exposure of private user data. The now publicly available messages show how paying users were given access to chatrooms pitched as resources to learn about topics such as self-improvement and fitness, as well as get rich quick ventures including cryptocurrency investing and ecommerce. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 1:10 Andrew Tate attacks 'media spin' Tate's involvement Andrew Tate does not appear to have been closely involved in teaching subscribers to The Real World, which started as Hustler's University in 2021. Instead, the model relies on users who refer to themselves as professors who offer coaching in "18 modern wealth creation methods". Where Tate has interacted, he has shared motivational content in the macho tone for which he has become known on his public social media channels. During a live-streamed episode of Tate's Emergency Meeting podcast, the hackers flooded the chatroom with messages and images promoting LGBTQ+ rights and feminist slogans. Read more: Who is the self-styled 'king of toxic masculinity'? Trump leans on Romania to relax restrictions on Tates What's next for The Real World? Cybersecurity experts warned that users may now be vulnerable to phishing scams, doxxing, and identity theft. Since the hack, it's unclear if any steps have been made to strengthen The Real World's security. Andrew Tate, a former kickboxer turned social media entrepreneur, has built an empire by promoting his version of financial independence and self-improvement. However, this hack poses one of the biggest threats to his brand's credibility to date. The Data and Forensics team is a multi-skilled unit dedicated to providing transparent journalism from Sky News. We gather, analyse and visualise data to tell data-driven stories. We combine traditional reporting skills with advanced analysis of satellite images, social media and other open-source information. Through multimedia storytelling we aim to better explain the world while also showing how our journalism is done.
