Video summary
In this episode of the PBD Podcast, Andrew Tate engages in a lengthy discussion with host Patrick Bet-David, covering his social media bans, conflicts with Logan Paul, and broader societal views. However, the central focus of this summary is the critical analysis of how Tate has adopted the persona of a conspiracy theorist, regularly spreading misinformation under the guise of fighting tyranny. The transcript highlights that Tate frequently claims government agencies and major social media platforms are orchestrating a coordinated effort to suppress his views through a "media machine." He argues that once he was perceived as unjust, these entities turned against him, leading to bans that he interprets as part of a larger plot rather than standard content moderation. This narrative fosters a sense of victimhood among his audience, particularly young men in the manosphere, who are encouraged to believe they are being held down by an oppressive system while ignoring facts and evidence that easily disprove his claims.
The video delves into specific examples of Tate's conspiracy theories, starting with the case of Alex Berenson, a doctor who was banned from Twitter for stating that vaccines do not stop transmission but only offer therapeutic benefits. Patrick Bet-David critiques how Tate and other conspiracy theorists connect unrelated dots, such as linking a judge appointed by Bill Clinton to a broader government crackdown on free speech six months after President Biden made comments about banning misinformation spreaders. The analysis points out that while there were indeed bans during the pandemic, many other figures like Russell Brand and Bret Weinstein were not suppressed, yet Tate's followers are led to believe that everyone opposing them is being censored. This selective storytelling creates a false narrative where the "little guy" fights against a massive, evil entity, ignoring the nuance that social media algorithms often create echo chambers rather than actively suppressing all opposing views.
A significant portion of the discussion focuses on financial misinformation regarding Rumble, the platform Tate moved to after his YouTube ban. Tate claimed that Rumble's stock price had skyrocketed while Google's declined, implying a direct causal link between his presence and market performance. The transcript explains that this statement is factually incorrect because Rumble was not yet a publicly traded company at the time; it was in the startup phase awaiting a potential merger with CF Acquisition Corp. The rise in value belonged to CFVI, the private entity planning to acquire Rumble, not Rumble itself. This example illustrates how Tate's arguments are easily falsifiable with a quick fact-check, yet his audience often fails to question the logic because they are invested in the David versus Goliath narrative. The host emphasizes that despite advocating for personal responsibility and accountability, Tate and his followers consistently blame external forces for their problems, refusing to accept that 90% of their grievances stem from self-interest and financial gain rather than genuine persecution.
Ultimately, the episode serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of misinformation and the psychological mechanisms that allow conspiracy theories to thrive. The host argues that while social media platforms do have issues with algorithms and bubbles, the specific claims made by Tate regarding censorship are often exaggerated or entirely false. By presenting themselves as victims of a tyrannical system, figures like Tate manipulate their audiences into ignoring reality and embracing narratives that serve their own financial interests. The transcript concludes by urging viewers to critically evaluate information sources, fact-check simple claims, and understand the difference between legitimate concerns about free speech and the fabrication of conspiracies. The analysis suggests that without media literacy and a willingness to look beyond surface-level stories, individuals risk falling into traps that distort reality and promote dangerous ideologies based on unverified assertions.
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andrew tate recently sat down with
patrick bett david for the pbd podcast
for nearly five hours in this episode
andrew tate discusses all of his social
media bands his beef with logan paul and
so so much more but today i wanted to
discuss how andrew tate has gone
full-blown insane conspiracy theorist
who is regularly spreading
misinformation and that is a concerning
aspect of this man's influence that
isn't addressed nearly enough within the
first 10 minutes of this podcast andrew
tate mentions all of the lies the
tyranny and the control that he believes
is behind the government and the social
media platforms who are trying to
suppress his views the media machine
in
synchronization with the ban we can call
that coincidence if you want to believe
in such things now they attacked me with
their media machine because first they
shut you up so they can lie about you so
they shut me up then they did the
massive media push to try and attempt to
lie about me and this is going to have a
negative effect on us for a very very
long time because when you're in charge
of the world which they are
as soon as you're no longer seen as just
and fair
you're seen as tyrannical and once
you're seen as tyrannical then there's
going to be some kind of mass movement
against you conspiracy theories in the
manosphere are a major issue and it's
extremely dangerous the manosphere is
fostering a legion of angry young men
who believe that the world is out to get
them in a previous video about strategic
ignorance i discussed how people like
andrew tate say that reading books is a
useless activity while they make up
theories that have zero evidence they
tell young men how much better women
have it even though each of their
arguments are easily disproven with
facts and evidence this is dangerous
because when you're telling a massive
audience of young men what they quote
unquote deserve and what they are owed
while also telling them that another
group is holding them down it leads to
terrible outcomes these men end up doing
exactly the opposite of what people like
andrew tate supposedly advocate for
which is personal responsibility and not
blaming the world for all of your
problems now they attacked me with their
media machine we're gonna break down
some of andrew tate's conspiracy
theories from this episode and the
misinformation from this podcast about
his ban and why why are we starting
there well because in order to realize
just how much bad information and
terrible logic this guy andrew tate
spreads you can start catching all of
the other conspiracy theories that he
weaves in but before we get started if
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real quick as i mentioned this is a five
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if you want me to do a deeper dive and
discuss some other aspects of this like
you know everything going on with andrew
tate and logan paul uh some topics
around free speech and should he be
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content for you guys all right so after
andrew tate starts talking about and
kind of poisoning the well that the
government and the social media
platforms are out to get him
they bring up this guy alex berenson who
was talking about covid and how it
spreads and how the vaccines don't stop
transmission on twitter did you follow
the story i don't know the exact story
so he was on joe rogan if you've not
seen it i highly recommend you watch
this so
he is saying things about twitter matter
of fact the tweet that got him in
trouble got him his fifth strike was the
following tweet we can put put this up
there because i'm just reading what he
said this is a tweet he put out that he
said it doesn't stop infection or
transmission don't think of it as a
vaccine think of it as at best a
therapeutic with a limited window of
efficacy and terrible side effects
profile that must be dosed in advance of
illness and we want to mandate it
insanity that's a tweet so he gets
banned makes a lot of sense to me in
december of last year which was six
months after when biden said anybody who
allows debate a vaccine should be banned
or shouldn't be allowed meaning there
shouldn't be any of that so six months
after that he gets banned in april a
judging california california believe it
or not a very big freedom of speech
place because they allow protesting a
judge that was appointed by bill clinton
comes in and says i'm allowing this to
go through because typically section 230
that is in place in 1998 was to protect
social media sites and many of these
online sites that if you offend your
ex-wife or if you offend your brother it
has nothing to do with facebook so they
kind of protected themselves but
alex was able to go all the way because
of this court judge that was appointed
by clinton not judge not obama or trump
so right here patrick bett david starts
talking about
how
they took this to court and how this was
six months after joe biden said
something about banning people from
social media
who are spreading coveted misinformation
all right then you notice that patrick
starts connecting these dots about a
clinton appointed judge and how alex was
then put back on the platform and now
alex talks about the government and all
these other things which was six months
after when biden said anybody who allows
debate a vaccine should be banned or
shouldn't be allowed meaning there
shouldn't be any of that then from here
he uses that to transition into andrew
tate's band all right
this is what's known as connecting the
dots and conspiracy theorists absolutely
love doing this they will take
completely different things with one
connecting point and say see it's the
exact same thing and that is a big red
flag that you're dealing with a
conspiracy theorist but we need to
discuss
what they're actually talking about what
happened to this guy alex berenson well
here is a little clip from a new york
times article that kind of summarizes it
just before boarding marine one for a
weekend in camp david in maryland mr
biden was asked what his message was to
social media platforms when it comes to
covet 19 disinformation quote they're
killing people he said
look the only pandemic we have is among
the unvaccinated and that and they're
killing people so there's a lot to take
away from this all right so we have
found out that getting the vaccine does
not stop the spread of transmission okay
especially with new variants coming out
and everything like that but everybody
should be vaccinated because it greatly
reduces the chances of severe illness or
even death okay and i hope you all
realize too since we don't have a
nationalized health care system because
this country is ruled by capitalism with
all of the unvaccinated people who are
constantly filling up these hospitals
because they're sick with kovid that is
jacking up health care costs and it's
also putting a lot of stress on these
hospitals and we're seeing nurses strike
and everything like that because they've
been overloaded for the past two years
by people who are unvaccinated so was
what biden said technically correct not
entirely but there are a lot of
different ways to look at this
but the issue that comes from what
patrick was saying about this is that
they we have to understand that there is
a major difference there is a major
difference between something like what
alex berenson was saying about how the
vaccine does not stop transmission
there's a difference between that and
what conspiracy theorists like russell
brand are putting up on youtube every
single day okay and that's one of the
issues is when you're connecting dots
like this you're taking completely
different scenarios you're not providing
any nuance and you're saying look these
are the same things when they're not
within the conspiracy and misinformation
world there are many different people
many different layers many different
stories many different narratives and
all of that now like i said i i would
love to do a conversation around free
speech and misinformation because it is
a tricky topic especially especially
when it comes to cover 19 there's a lot
of people who have already made videos
about this or they've discussed this on
podcasts but the information is
regularly changing and that is why i
always say you should follow the experts
and see what the consensus is around
these topics but anyways like i said
patrick beck david uses the alex
berenson story to then switch over to
andrew tate and his social media bands
even though they are two completely
different things and this is when andrew
tastes are spewing out like a fire hose
discussing what happened to him and how
these social media companies operate i
believe there's huge pressure behind the
dam in regards to the fact that
everybody understands that these places
are tyrannical and that they control
ideas and that they force narratives and
i use
my wording as the matrix i call them the
matrix and people say why are you
calling the matrix and i say because
they project a false version of reality
in real time that people subscribe to if
there wasn't an absolute blacklist on
all opposing views during covet 19 that
would never have gone on for as long as
it did it went on for as long as it did
they managed to prepare a false version
of reality for so long because you
couldn't discuss the opposing side hi
editing chris here again i can't believe
i forgot to mention this but real quick
something else that you'll hear a lot
especially especially from covid vaccine
conspiracy theorists is how many views
and how many opinions were suppressed
now were there bands yes absolutely but
if you look you can go back you can
search through the history people like
russell brand and some of these quack
doctors out there and people like brett
weinstein none of them were ever banned
they didn't get a strike nothing
happened to suppress their opinions so
if you were to only listen to people
like andrew tate you would think that
they were just out there with a button
and just boom boom blocked blocked all
over the place and this is not what
happened okay look into it go back
search the history there are people
especially especially russell brand who
i recently made a video about they said
this from the start to the finish of the
entire covid pandemic when it was at its
worst so no not everybody was being
suppressed the way these conspiracy
theorists say they are and the reason
they say this is because they want to
give the idea that they're trying to get
out the truth but people are against
them and in this next segment i talk a
little bit about that kind of story that
they tell
so first off yes social media platforms
have major issues a ton of issues their
algorithms are terrible they put you
into bubbles and all sorts of things but
what you need to understand about andrew
tate and all the people who are free
speech warriors is that what they're
saying is easily falsifiable all right
take one second just stop and ask
yourself
how am i hearing this information that
is coming out of andrew tate's mouth
right now
you are hearing it on a social media
platform
just take a step back and realize that
this is so easily falsifiable they are
openly saying the exact things on social
media that they say is being censored
and for some reason the people who fall
for the conspiracy theories of andrew
tate they don't think about that for
just one second if you're hearing
someone say something on social media
that they say is sent is going to be
censored there is an issue and they're
clearly wrong and by the way just
jumping back in here while i'm editing
to clarify yes andrew tate was banned
you can call that censorship but i'm
specifically pointing out that they're
having conversations around covet 19
information and they're saying you get
banned for what they're talking about
there are many many other people who do
this including people like russell brand
brett weinstein and so many others who
are within that space i recently
finished one of my favorite books on the
psychology of conspiracy theorists
called suspicious minds and one of the
things they talk about is how conspiracy
theorists they really love
stories all right they fall for
narratives okay and that completely
makes sense and one of the things the
book talks about is the whole david and
goliath story people love it it's the
little guy versus the big guy and as you
have seen throughout all of these andrew
tate clips he's the little guy the
social media platforms are the big guy
all right this is how a lot of
conspiracy theorists get their massive
followings because they believe that
they are supporting david against the
big goliath which is the social media
platforms or it is the government but
you need to understand that these
individuals like andrew tate they are
also goliaths they have massive
followings and are making
millions of dollars off of all the
people who are falling for this
narrative that they're just being
suppressed and they're just trying to
spread the truth and they're just trying
to help people the reality is is that 90
of what they're saying is purely out of
self-interest and how much money goes
into their bank accounts already i've
moved to rumble i only had 738 000
subscribers on my youtube after five
years of work post ban i moved to rumble
which is a youtube competitor stock
price has gone up 36 and i'm at five i'm
at half a million subscribers in two
weeks so if you're interested in
debunking conspiracy theories and
spotting misinformation this is the
perfect clip because what andrew tate
just said is extremely misleading and it
is about as close to the line of
misinformation as you could possibly get
okay so andrew tate says that rumble
stock is massively up and google stock
is down okay so here's a brief breakdown
i am not a finance expert but i am an
investor and i know quite a bit about
stocks and how all this stuff works so
for those who don't know what andrew
tate just said just sounds like
something you would just brush off you'd
be like oh okay rumble stocks up what's
the matter all right so i'm gonna try to
break this down real quick
so if a company is private you cannot
buy stock in that company you can only
be a private investor okay this is when
like venture capitalists come in or just
people with a lot of money or angel
investors all sorts of stuff that is
private companies
in order for a stock price to be up in
the way that andrew tate is saying the
company has to be public so we need to
ask
is rumble a publicly traded company you
can go right now
type into google rumble stock okay
you'll find a stock that says rumble on
that is not the rumble that andrew tate
is talking about when i did this when i
went to fact check him i got a little
curious i'm like okay well what the heck
is he talking about so check out this
article from seeking alpha it is an
investing website so it says in december
2021 rumble announced a definitive
business combination agreement with cf
acquisition corp vi
shareholders must approve the deal on a
vote scheduled to close on september
15th and a little bit more information
on this a big key to where the stock
trades following the approval of the
spac deal are the actual financials
rumble is still in the startup phase
and the public market isn't very
forgiving of money losing stocks right
now then if you actually go to rumble's
twitter account you can see right there
in the bio the next generation of video
and cloud news
rumble to combine with nasdaq listed
cfvi so what does this all mean in order
for rumble to have a publicly traded
stock which they do not have right now
they need to get bought out by cfvi
which the private investors are voting
on on september 15th which at the time
of recording this is tomorrow so if this
goes down
then rumble will kind of be a publicly
traded company so let's break that down
real quick
this deal has not closed yet
cfvi the company that is possibly buying
out rumble
is a publicly traded company so yes
cfvi stock went up and it went up a lot
it's over 30
in the last month which is
huge but since
cfvi does not own rumble yet what you
are seeing is that people are
speculatively
investing in the company that plans on
buying out rumble so it is extremely
misleading to say that quote rumble
stock is massively up
again like i said what you have to do if
you want to catch conspiracy theorists
and people who spread misinformation you
have to catch
all of the little things all the little
tiny things you gotta fact check it
takes two seconds i always say it takes
two seconds to look into these things
the whole rumble thing going down took
me maybe five to ten minutes we can't
just sit back and passively listen to
this but the problem is is that a lot of
people in andrew tate's following a lot
of people who follow the manosphere bros
are just listening to this stuff and
taking it in but i think the absolute
craziest part about this is that
these guys andrew tate and patrick the
host they're actively talking about how
they're unfairly censored by social
media platforms because they're just
spreading the truth they're not
spreading misinformation but as you can
see you fact check them for one second
you're like wait what you just said is
false so again they advocate for
personal responsibility and not blaming
the whole world for your problems but
they are regularly looking at these
things through this lens as a freaking
victim and it is mind-boggling so
anyways this was just the first like 15
to 20 minutes of that podcast episode
that was like five hours so if you like
this if you're interested in me diving
deeper into this like i wouldn't make
like 10 videos on this i'll probably
just do one big one pull some of the
important parts do a video essay on it
so if you're interested in that leave a
like leave a comment let me know all
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