back to twitter as well. so this is a part of the story that s worth saying that the ban did not endure in the case of twitter. it s also worth saying that in the case of his detention in romania at the moment, andrew tate denies all the allegations. also, a statement given on behalf of him to the daily mirror reads andrew and tristan tate, that s his brother. have the utmost respect for the romanian authorities and will always assist and help in any way they can. scott, what s your view of how journalists and the media should interact with a phenomenon like andrew tate? it s tough because, you know, i i include myself in this loosely, i in the media, i m not a journalist, i but you wonder if you re just adding more grist to the mill- when you highlight or bring attention to this kind of truth. and i would argue that the guilty. party are if he and his brother have committed crimes in romania, i hope he s held to account. i but i would say the culprit in the us or what is not i helping
you will only ever stitch them up. and any kind of objectivity is kind of taken as offensiveness. so but it was one of the less alarming response i ve ever had. but matt s right to bring this up, this is a continuing issue forjournalists, is that luckily news organisations are becoming better at safeguarding their reporters from this. but if you are reporting on communities like this, you should expect everything from death threats to doxxing, to people trying to hack into your emails, to your social media accounts. and news organisations have to have a duty of responsibility to protect and supportjournalists in those circumstances. and to that final point, scott, if whole communities are set up to be suspicious of the mainstream, you re advocating mainstream media evolves what it does, but perhaps it can t reach those people because they already have a fixed view of the type of media content that will be coming from those sources. that s a tough one. look, it reverse engineers to any
all the facts as we saw them. but, yes, when we were there, you know, there were attempts to control our access. we had chaperones constantly, we were told, don t go in there, that door is locked, if you try and go in there, someone will put a gun in your face. we had, you know, sort of tall, scary, intimidating, strong men behind us when we were interviewing everyone, monitoring our questions and all of that. so, yeah. well, thank you for coming on to speak about your film. and andrew tate s story more broadly connects directly to how media content is made, distributed, moderated and consumed. and we re going to spend today s edition of the media show understanding that with the help of matt shea, but also with helen lewis, who s staff writer at the atlantic, also presenter of the recent bbc podcast series the new gurus, which looks at online personalities with big followings. hi, helen. would you consider andrew tate a form of guru? 0h, absolutely. he fits very firmly into what s kno
elon musk brought back to twitter as well. so this is a part of the story that s worth saying that the ban did not endure in the case of twitter. it s also worth saying that in the case of his detention in romania at the moment, andrew tate denies all the allegations. also, a statement given on behalf of him to the daily mirror reads andrew and tristan tate, that s his brother. have the utmost respect for the romanian authorities and will always assist and help in any way they can. scott, what s your view of how journalists and the media should interact with a phenomenon like andrew tate? it s tough because, you know, i i include myself in this loosely, i in the media, i m not a journalist, i but you wonder if you re just adding more grist to the mill- when you highlight or bring attention to this kind of truth. and i would argue that the guilty party are if he and his brother. have committed crimes in romania, i hope he s held to account. - but i would say the culprit in the us or wha
of taken as offensiveness. so but it was one of the less alarming response i ve ever had. but matt s right to bring this up, this is a continuing issue forjournalists, is that luckily news organisations are becoming better at safeguarding their reporters from this. but if you are reporting on communities like this, you should expect everything from death threats to doxxing, to people trying to hack into your emails, to your social media accounts. and news organisations have to have a duty of responsibility to protect and supportjournalists in those circumstances. and to that final point, scott, if whole communities are set up to be suspicious of the mainstream, you re advocating mainstream media evolves what it does, but perhaps it can t reach those people because they already have a fixed view of the type of media content that will be coming from those sources. that s a tough one. look, it reverse engineers to any time you have an arbitrage, - you transition something to another sourc