How does a self-professed misogynist become one of the world’s most influential people, and remain so even after being charged with rape and human trafficking? Andrew Tate’s meteoric rise to infamy has provoked global uproar, but the controversial figure is also a terrifying symptom of the increasingly fractured world in which we live, propelled by the social media platforms beneath our fingertips.

The explosive story of Tate’s rise, arrest, and fall. Where did the world’s most Googled man spring from? Is he a dangerous icon for toxic masculinity or a misunderstood internet star?