Making a Radical Misogynist

Habib, Hussam; Srinivasan, Padmini; Nithyanand, Rishab

doi:10.1145/3555551

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“…The overlapping online spaces occupied by members of the far right and proponents of misogynistic extremism was considered. Several authors highlighted that misogynistic incels who have committed acts of violence frequented not only misogynistic incel online spaces but also far-right online spaces and sites, such as 4 chan and 8 kun (Habib et al, 2022;Zhou et al, 2022;S. J. Baele et a1., 2021;Hoffman et al, 2020;Wilson, 2020).…”

Section: Misogynistic Extremism and Far-right Extremismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Misogynistic Extremism: A Scoping Review

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Lee

LaViolette

et al. 2023

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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In recent years, the concept of “misogynistic extremism” has emerged as a subject of interest among scholars, governments, law enforcement personnel, and the media. Yet a consistent understanding of how misogynistic extremism is defined and conceptualized has not yet emerged. Varying epistemological orientations may contribute to the current conceptual muddle of this topic, reflecting long-standing and on-going challenges with the conceptualization of its individual components. To address the potential impact of misogynistic extremism (i.e., violent attacks), a more precise understanding of what this phenomenon entails is needed. To summarize the existing knowledge base on the nature of misogynistic extremism, this scoping review analyzed publications within English-language peer-reviewed and gray literature sources. Seven electronic databases and citation indexes were systematically searched using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR) checklist and charted using the 2020 PRISMA flow diagram. Inclusion criteria included English peer-reviewed articles and relevant gray literature publications, which contained the term “misogynistic extremism” and other closely related terms. No date restrictions were imposed. The search strategy initially yielded 475 publications. After exclusion of ineligible articles, 40 publications remained for synthesis. We found that misogynistic extremism is most frequently conceptualized in the context of misogynistic incels, male supremacism, far-right extremism, terrorism, and the black pill ideology. Policy recommendations include increased education among law enforcement and Countering and Preventing Violent Extremism experts on male supremacist violence and encouraging legal and educational mechanisms to bolster gender equality. Violence stemming from misogynistic worldviews must be addressed by directly acknowledging and challenging socially embedded systems of oppression such as white supremacy and cisheteropatriarchy.

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Section: Misogynistic Extremism and Far-right Extremismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Misogynistic Extremism: A Scoping Review

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Lee

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“…Firstly, the diffusion of information over a platform, whether mediated by hateful actors (users) or via hateful content (posts), ex-hibits different characteristics compared to their non-hateful counterparts [13,28]. Secondly, in the social science community, it has been conjectured that hateful and extremist behavior might be linked with the formation of echo chambers [22,44] -groups of users who share a strong opinion align themselves in the interaction network in such a way that they are exposed to content correlated to their chosen ideology.…”

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Hatemongers ride on echo chambers to escalate hate speech diffusion

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Sahnan²,

Dutta³

et al. 2023

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Recent years have witnessed a swelling rise of hateful and abusive content over online social networks. While detection and moderation of hate speech have been the early go-to countermeasures, the solution requires a deeper exploration of the dynamics of hate generation and propagation. We analyze more than 32 million posts from over 6.8 million users across three popular online social networks to investigate the interrelations between hateful behavior, information dissemination, and polarised organization mediated by echo chambers. We find that hatemongers play a more crucial role in governing the spread of information compared to singled-out hateful content. This observation holds for both the growth of information cascades as well as the conglomeration of hateful actors. Dissection of the core-wise distribution of these networks points towards the fact that hateful users acquire a more well-connected position in the social network and often flock together to build up information cascades. We observe that this cohesion is far from mere organized behavior; instead, in these networks, hatemongers dominate the echo chambers -groups of users actively align themselves to specific ideological positions. The observed dominance of hateful users to inflate information cascades is primarily via user interactions amplified within these echo chambers. We conclude our study with a cautionary note that popularity-based recommendation of content is susceptible to be exploited by hatemongers given their potential to escalate content popularity via echo-chambered interactions.

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