Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said Tuesday his office launched a criminal investigation into self-proclaimed misogynist influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan after they returned to the U.

Andrew Tate rose to fame on a message of forceful masculinity that positioned men as rightful dominators over women. From his base in Romania, he promised to help guide men through “the Matrix,” his conspiratorial term for a world that he says unfairly demonizes men,