[4] A divisive influencer,[5] Tate has amassed 9.9 million followers on Twitter as of August 2024[6][7] and was the third-most googled person in 2023,[8] with most British adults aware of who he is.

[18] Vice later reported that Tate was removed because the show's producers became aware of an ongoing police investigation by Hertfordshire Constabulary into him for rape, which closed in 2019 with no charges filed.

[22] Tate operated Hustler's University, a platform where members paid a US$49.99 monthly membership fee to receive instruction on ways to make money outside traditional employment, such as cryptocurrency, copywriting, and e-commerce, which was facilitated by prerecorded videos and a Discord server.

[62] The Irish-American financial services company Stripe pulled out of processing subscriptions for the platform, and Hustler's University shut down its affiliate marketing program.

[70] In November, the website suffered a cyberattack which leaked the usernames of 794,000 former and current members, 324,382 registered email addresses, as well as the contents of 221 public and 395 private chat servers.

[71] The War Room promotes self-discipline, motivation and confidence building whilst giving members access to thousands of professionals from around the world who encourage personal responsibility and accountability, emphasising the importance of taking ownership of your choices and actions.

Advertised by Tate and costing $8,000, The War Room is described as "a global network in which exemplars of individualism work to free the modern man from socially induced incarceration", stating it teaches men "physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial development".

[21] The investigation in August 2023 led by Matt Shea documented evidence of women groomed into online sex work by members of the group,[21] described as an all-male secretive society.

[14] A deleted description of the defunct course on the website that prosecutors in Romania have since used in the case against Tate read:[14][33]My job was to meet a girl, go on a few dates, sleep with her, test if she's quality, get her to fall in love with me to where she'd do anything I say, and then get her on webcam so we could become rich together,Evidence suggested violence against women was also taught and discussed.

[84] In February 2023, Thierry Baudet, founder and leader of the far-right Forum for Democracy, called Tate an "outspoken political dissident" and "courageous critic", tabling a motion in the Dutch parliament regarding his detention in Romania.

[111] By May, far-right conservatives such as Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens had platformed Tate as a proponent of "traditional views on men in the culture war raging over gender".

[14] In August, Tate was accused of inciting online hate[112] after becoming one of the first influencers to amplify misinformation about the Southport stabbing, leading to the far-right riots in the UK.

[116] Beginning in 2022,[117] Tate's views and their influence on teenage boys and young men have become a particular concern of parents, teachers and mental health experts in much of the world, including North America,[118] the United Kingdom,[117] Australia[119][120] and New Zealand.

[121] The New York Times has described his views as "brainwashing a generation", due to his influence in British schools,[122] and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) considers Tate's misogyny mainstream.

[82] In August 2022, the White Ribbon Campaign, a nonprofit organisation opposing male-on-female violence, called Tate's commentary "extremely misogynistic" and its possible long-term effects on his young male audience "concerning".

[83] Hope not Hate asserted that Tate's social media presence might present a "dangerous slip road into the far-right" for his audience[85] and criticised his ties to the far right.

[86] In response to these criticisms, Tate said that his content includes "many videos praising women" and mainly aims to teach his audience to avoid "toxic and low-value people as a whole".

[123] In February 2023, Tim Squirrell of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue said Tate posed "a risk of radicalising young men into misogynist extremism".

"[9] According to interviews by The Conversation in mid–2023, teachers explicitly identified Tate's influence on students in reference to a dramatic increase in "sexism, misogyny and sexual harassment" in Australian classrooms.

[128] Of what was called violent misogyny and other forms of extremist content that Tate distributes online, the head of UK counter-terror policing has said, "I'm concerned about the effect of that kind of rhetoric in the minds of young boys".

According to researchers at Monash University Tate and other manosphere influencers have shaped the way boys treat women and girls and led students to openly espouse "male supremacist" views, to the extent that some Australian teachers have quit their jobs.

[120][130] In February 2024, the Shadow Education Secretary in the UK, Bridget Phillipson, said the Labour Party wanted to use male role models to counter the misogyny of influencers such as Tate.

[146] In January 2023 the BBC reported that Tate and his brother had used social media to contact underage girls in an attempt to get them to join their webcam business.

[149] TikTok, where videos featuring Tate's name as a hashtag have been viewed over 13 billion times, also removed his account after determining that it violated their policies on "content that attacks, threatens, incites violence against, or otherwise dehumanises an individual or a group".

He said that Romanian police ask women reporting rapes for "evidence" or "CCTV proof", whereas in the Western world during the #MeToo movement any woman "at any point in the future can destroy your life".

[145] That same month, the Tate brothers filed a defamation lawsuit against one of the accusers, their parents and two other people, in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, seeking $5 million in damages.

The Tates claim the five conspired to falsely accuse them of human trafficking and rape, costing them their freedom as well as income from social media and business ventures.

They had sued a former United States Marine Corps sergeant who reported Tate to the U.S. Embassy in Romania and military officials, leading to his arrest by Romanian authorities.

[23][201] In December 2024, the Westminster Magistrates' Court ruled in favour of the Devon and Cornwall police, allowing them to seize £2.8m worth of unpaid taxes from the Tate brothers' online businesses.

[202] In February 2025 Alison Hernandez, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall, announced that the force had received around £1.2m and she hoped that the funds would be used to support the victims of violence against women and girls.