The name Andrew Tate is very well known among some users of the internet – and entirely unknown to others.

But he has been the focus of numerous headlines over the past two years – first, some were interrogating why he was becoming so popular despite being the source of much misogynistic and troubling content. Then the coverage took a sharp turn when he was arrested, alongside his brother, in Romania.

Andrew Tate is accused of being part of an organised crime group, of human trafficking and of rape. Tate, who is reported to have lived in Romania since 2017, has previously been banned from various prominent social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and hate speech.

This episode of The Explainer podcast looks at the ‘manosphere’ he is part of and the potential impact of his content with Dr Debbie Ging, an associate professor of Digital Media and Gender in the School of Communication at Dublin City University.

Also on the podcast is The Journal's Diarmuid Pepper, who talks about this article he did about teachers’ concerns about the influence of Tate on their students.