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The story of Andrew Tate’s abusive treatment of women, & toxic influence on boys, has been well-covered But there’s another side to his activities that’s gotten less attention - that he's allegedly grifting his own fans Here's a 🧵 about The Real World ​​vice.com/en/article/pka…

Alex Batty was 11 when he vanished in Spain with his mum, then spent 6 years living off-grid in line with her sovereign citizen beliefs In this great new BBC doc, he recounts those lost years, & I pop up discussing the conspiracy ideology behind it all bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

I wrote a long read for @unherd about how the mafia has infiltrated Germany - via the pizza restaurant. Based on a book by the excellent criminologist @ZoraHauser

With crypto prince @Patrick_Shortis, I investigated Russia's bizarre high tech, spy-style drug market, run by a new breed of youtube drug barons, for @GI_TOC Download the report here: globalinitiative.net/analysis/russi…

When speaking with Tate ahead of filming for our Vice documentary - he told me his cam business was still operating, and that we could interview one of his ‘workers’. That only changed after the April 2022 raid, when that offer was rescinded. He then said it was just Tristan, managing girls on OnlyFans

had a great time talking with @JordanBloemen at @hackedpodcast about my reporting on Andrew Tate's business school, The Real World - give it a listen 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/4CQ20P…

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There is an online community where children are being sextorted into self-harm, creating CSAM, animal abuse, and worse. It's a community where "being the most evil" is the goal. If the latter part sounds childish, well, it is. These are kids hurting kids. vice.com/en/article/7kx…

Dopo lo stop forzato causato dalla pandemia, stanno tornando in Europa i concerti nazirock. Uno sarà in Francia alla fine di febbraio; mentre l'altro si terrà il prossimo 16 marzo. Indovinate un po' dove? Esatto: proprio in Italia. 🧵

As two major neo-Nazi music concerts are set to take place in France and Italy over the coming weeks, @FightExtremism Senior Advisor @alexRitzmann warns that they function as “central networking hubs” for transnational extremism. vice.com/en/article/v7b…

experts say this reflects a halfhearted approach to moderating Tate's content by social media giants, who lack any real incentive to keep his vids off their sites "It’s sometimes more profitable for YouTube to turn a blind eye & try to get away with the bare minimum” - @CCDHate

YouTube has continued to profit from selling advertising on videos promoting Andrew Tate, despite supposedly having banned him from the platform 18 months ago vice.com/en/article/4a3…

A decision from @Ofcom - it is permissible to tell viewers that vaccines cause a fictional condition called "turbo cancer". thetimes.co.uk/article/gb-new…

Not surprising but Dilly Hussain of @5Pillarsuk has now hosted former BNP leader Nick Griffin, founder of Britain First Jim Dowson and now nazi leader of Patriotic Alternative Mark Collett. Despite their long histories of islamophobia he has found common cause in antisemitism.

The newly banned channels included Waller's main account, which had more than 400K subs Campaigners welcomed the move, saying it shut down one of TRW’s major recruitment channels YouTube has culled TRW channels with >2M subs & well over 1B views between them since the report

The Real World tasks its students with creating promotional videos to recruit new members over social media, in a marketing model that resembles a pyramid scheme To get around bans on Tate content on many social media sites, the videos often featured Waller as the main pitchman

YouTube has banned 4 channels linked to Justin Waller, the "face" of Andrew Tate's The Real World online business school, following a VICE News investigation revealing how the site was using social media platforms to target and exploit his young fans vice.com/en/article/qjv…

going to be on @IrelandAMVMTV in a few minutes talking Andrew Tate and his The Real World platform - Irish followers tune in! 🙏📺

A suspicious account on X with 35,000 followers and a gold checkmark, ostensibly reserved for verified “official organizations”, is openly glorifying Adolf Hitler. trib.al/6gJ4AGt

@StowNIGDYWIECEJ said it had flagged up 32 antisemitic Polish-language posts on X since Dec. 1, including one by a far-right MP who vandalised a menorah in parliament, railing against Judaism as "tribal, wild, Talmudic worship" in each case, moderators said they broke no rules

Musk just went to Auschwitz ahead of a Polish antisemitism conference, in response to criticism X allows anti-Jewish hate But a Polish group says the site has allowed every hateful X post they've flagged since December to stand, amid rampant antisemitism vice.com/en/article/3ak…