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Abuse Guide: Andrew Tate’s Men’s Network Chats Released
Together with his brother and other alleged accomplices, Andrew Tate has been charged in Romania
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British broadcaster BBC has released documents purporting to show chat messages from Andrew Tate’s War Room online network. In it, men give instructions on how to humiliate women into doing sex work for them.
Andrew Tate is known for his misogynistic views, which he spread unfiltered on the Internet for years. He is now facing trial for charges including human trafficking and rape. The British broadcaster BBC has now published chat transcripts that contain violent methodologies on how women can be coerced into sex work. The documents are said to show news from the War Room online network, which was founded by Andrew Tate.
According to its own statements, the network is for “powerful “Men and those who want to learn from them”. The “War Room” promotes self-discipline, motivation and building self-confidence. Photos on the “War Room’s” website show groups of men in bars and on large yachts. Most are men pixelated, but one of them always shows his face in the photos – and that’s Tate himself. Membership in the network costs $8,000 a year.
The reality seems different: The news released is supposed to show that Tate’s “War Room” is supposed to earn men a “PhD”. In this context, however, the abbreviation does not stand for the academic degree, but for “Pimpin’ Hoes Degree”, which translates as “whore pimp degree”. Content is delivered in chats by so-called “generals”.
Andrew Tate’s organization is a “cult”
The “generals” post instructions in the “War Room,” the report says, to seduce, manipulate, and socially isolate women so that they eventually engage in sex work. The men would take most of the profits from their victims and put them in their own pockets. According to the BBC, a user who goes by the name “Iggy Semmelweiss” in the chat groups is actually the head of the network. He calls himself a “magician” and gives instructions on how to force women to ex-work. A whistleblower who is said to have contacted the “BBC” claims to have managed sales and marketing for the Tate brothers for two years. He also confirmed Semmelweiss as head of the “War Room” and the chat groups. In his opinion, the organization around the two Romanian brothers is a “cult” that brainwashed him.
The British broadcaster quotes from messages that are believed to have come from Semmelweiss. In it he gives precise instructions on how to manipulate women. First, reduce attention to the woman to see if she loses interest. Then you should meet her for a coffee and find out if the woman is willing to serve the man and pay for the coffee. This approach becomes a series of regular steps to “remove her entire safety net from her life.” Finally, the woman should be punished by tattooing the man’s name and leaving her homeland. The punishment must culminate in “web camming, stripping, prostitution, procuring new women and escalating, escalating, escalating.”
Men’s victims confirm methods
BBC journalists have been able to locate many women who have fallen victim to what are believed to be more than 400 members of the “War Room”. They were able to talk to two, both of whom are said to have confirmed that they first had the feeling that they had been in a romantic relationship with the men before they were pushed into sex work. This well-known method of manipulation is also called the “loverboy method”. They have also been subjected to violence and have been forced to perform “minor activities” to prove their subservience.
A spokeswoman for Andrew Tate said in a statement that the BBC “not only makes false allegations, but also insults the large community that considers Andrew Tate a life-changing positive force.” The Tate brothers, Andrew and Tristan, were arrested in December 2022 and face trial on charges including human trafficking and rape in Romania. Since the beginning of August, Tate has only been under judicial supervision after his stay in custody and months of house arrest.
Sources: BBC, “The War Room”