A new study carried out by cybercrime and gender experts at the University of Portsmouth has revealed that incel social media accounts are rebranding to bypass bans and appeal to wider audiences on ...

While the social media platform does not allow hateful material on its site, advocates of “incel” ideology are bypassing this rule by continuing to produce their content but via “socially palatable” ...

Incel began as a term for the ache of not being chosen —an ache that, for many young men, has become defining. The birth of 'incel' In the late 1990s, a Canadian woman known only as Alana created ...

Gender-based violence is one of the most pressing and concerning spheres of contemporary hate and violent extremism. The UN notes that globally, one in three women have been subjected to physical ...

In the song, "Eleanor Rigby," The Beatles sing, "All the lonely people / Where do they all come from?" which is a key question when talking about incels, i.e., the involuntarily celibate. The Creation ...

This excerpt from Adam Aleksic’s Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language has been abridged for online publication. The book is out on July 15th. The modern-­day incel is ...

‘I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t think at least half the group was crazy,’ Harta* tells me from his home in the US. I can’t see him – like other men in my study into the world of incels, he’s ...

In the quiet corners of the internet, an unlikely brotherhood has formed. They call themselves incels—short for “involuntarily celibate”—and their forums hum with the voices of young men who believe ...

An 18-year-old Frenchman was detained and charged on July 1 with being part of a terrorist criminal enterprise. Amid reports of an increase in masculinism – a belief in the supremacy of men and ...

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