This week’s guest built a huge YouTube platform by digging into the “deep, dark rabbit hole” of financial scams, bizarre cultural phenomena, and more. He’s used it to uncover and document the bizarre world of alpha males in modern Internet culture. Events of the past few weeks — in particular Andrew Tate’s arrest in Romania on human trafficking charges following his online attacks on Greta Thunberg — reveal how necessary it is to reflect on how misogynists find digital niches to spread their ideas and indoctrinate others. Now, Philion joins us to talk about what he’s learned from his reporting on the manosphere — and from his own observations about online content, from the fitness world to cults and beyond.
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