Misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate made news headlines recently when a series of Twitter exchanges with environmentalist Greta Thunberg appeared to land him in a Romanian jail. Those news stories were the first time many Americans became aware of Tate. However, according to a February article in Education Week, teachers are seeing an increase in misogynistic remarks among preteen and teenage boys, which can be attributed to exposure to extremist social media influencers like Tate and others.
Boys don’t stumble into this toxic online world by accident. Male supremacist groups target boys and young men through popular social media platforms like Twitch and Discord, according to Pasha Dashtgard, who studies online extremism. He is the director of research at American University’s Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) and is an assistant professor in the Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology at AU, which is in Washington, D.C.
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