Andrew Tate is facing sex trafficking charges. He’s getting help from the White House

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Tate is back in the news. ProPublica reports that the White House may have been secretly trying to help him evade sex trafficking charges. Tate is also back on Meta platforms, all while he’s suing Meta for $50 million.

Bridget revisits her conversation with Media Matters researcher Justin Horowitz to understand how Tate and the broader manosphere continue to exploit social media systems and harm us all.

Read Justin’s Media Matters research: https://www.mediamatters.org/diversity-discrimination/beyond-andrew-tate-meet-misogynistic-manosphere-influencers-proliferating

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation: https://www.propublica.org/article/andrew-tate-investigation-dhs-paul-ingrassiaMeta Aims To Get Geographically Challenged Andrew Tate’s $50M Deplatforming Case Tossed, Moved Out Of L.A.: https://deadline.com/2025/10/meta-andrew-tate-lawsuit-latest-1236589558/

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed human.
0:04.5	People are being assured over and over again that women are the problem.
0:13.3	There are no girls on the internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.
0:26.6	I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. Like a bad penny you just can't get rid of, enemy of the show, Andrew Tate is back.
0:32.6	After being banned from pretty much every major social media platform around, the self-described
0:38.4	misogynistic influencer and alleged sex trafficker has re-emerged, this time on threads,
0:44.6	which he joined this week. Now, if there's one thing that Andrew Tate excels at, it's slipping
0:49.9	through the cracks of platform bans, because he didn't join threads as Andrew Tate. He joined as
0:56.2	the supposed representative of a new political party that he started called Brov, or the Britain
1:02.6	Restoring Underlying Values Party. He's even floated the idea of running for prime minister on
1:08.6	social media. Here's why that matters. Meta has historically
1:12.8	not really moderated content from political candidates. Under what they call the newsworthy
1:18.0	exemption, posts from politicians may stay up even if those posts violate community guidelines.
1:24.7	Just so long as Meta decides those posts are in the public interest
1:28.6	because that person is running for public office. And the irony doesn't stop there. At the same time
1:34.2	that Tate is joining threads, a platform owned by Meta, he's also suing Meta for $50 million over his
1:40.7	22 ban. But according to deadline, Andrew Tate's attorneys filed the suit in the wrong
1:46.9	city, because Facebook is famously headquartered in Menlo Park, California, and Tate's attorneys filed the
1:53.8	suit in Los Angeles County for some reason. We know birds of a feather flocked together, so it should
1:59.5	come as no surprise that Andrew Tate is a Trump ally.
2:03.0	When Trump was re-elected, Tate cheered saying that Trump's win meant that he would not have to face accountability on his sex trafficking charges,
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