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“Breadtubers” Natalie Wynn (@contrapoints) and Mina Le (@gremlita) Youtube.com, Wikimedia, The Conversation
Video essayists on YouTube are trying to beat the manosphere at it’s own game. Here are five insightful channels to watch.
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The virtual world still runs on a very physical network – and states are waking up to the strategic implications.
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Since rising to public prominence, the manosphere has been treated as if it’s just a niche corner of the internet. But those days are long gone.
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Pressure is mounting for teachers now expected to cover incel culture during their classes.
Fiber optics, illustrated here, underpin much of modern communications. Yuichiro Chino/Moment via Getty Images
Fiber optics allow you to search the internet, text your friends and check your social media feeds. They also have geological, security and manufacturing applications.
Elisabeta Dirjan/Canva, X.com, TikTok, Wikimedia, The Conversation
A new study highlights the experiences of men who left toxic online spaces.
A cloud outage in 2024 disrupted air travel around the world. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin
It makes sense for companies and organizations to outsource key internet services, but with those services in the hands of a few corporations, failures have a wide impact.
Educated women with regular income and access to digital tools can make independent choices about their sexual and reproductive health. Donwilson Odhiambo/Getty Images
A combination of education, income and technology has a strong influence on women’s reproductive autonomy.
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News outlets want readers – and big tech – to pay for their content. But blocking the Internet Archive will leave major holes in the public record of the web.
To get seniors online, the author provided them with computers and internet access. David Goldman/AP Photo
Stipends paid to residents had unintended consequences.
During a solidarity march in a show of support to the Iranian people marking the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, on 11 February 2023, a demonstrator in Paris denounces Iranian Police action targeting dissidents’ eyes. Now in early 2026, in Iran’s latest law enforcement crackdown, hundreds more victims have suffered deliberately inflicted eye injuries. Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFP
Iranian police deliberately fire at the protestors’ eyes. A deeply rooted act of repression that is older than the Islamic Republic itself.
Protesters have filled the streets in Iranian cities, but the regime’s internet shutdown means little news gets in or out of the country. MAHSA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images
Iran’s internet shutdown cuts off most communication with the outside world during violent repression of national protests.
The internet is a vital tool for coordinating protest. But the Iranian government knows that as well. Diego Martinez / Alamy Live News
The regime moved quickly to shut down communication networks after protests started to spread across Iran.
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Thousands of Iranians have been killed in the current protests. But the longer the regime maintains its blackout, the more people will be driven onto the streets.
Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran on Jan. 9, 2026. MAHSA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images
Information is still getting out despite an almost total internet blackout, especially with the help of diaspora groups. That poses a big problem for the government.
Man holding phone in Tigray. Ethiopia has had more internet shutdowns than any other African country. Neal Wilson/Getty Images
Internet shutdown affects millions of Africans more and more often and are most prominent during elections or protests.
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We need a deeper understanding of what exactly children’s safety and wellbeing online looks like.
Youtube, Instagram, Vadim Ghirda/AP, Canva, The Conversation
Normalising violence, worsening body image and sexist attitudes are among the manosphere beliefs that are bleeding into relationships and workplaces.
A protester stokes a barricade fire in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, during a riot sparked by online reports of sexual assaults on minors allegedly committed by migrants in June 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
‘Rage bait’ is the Oxford Word of the Year which makes sense as anger, indignation and violence have become the raw materials of the internet.
Pexels, Alamy, Canva, The Conversation
No longer relegated to an obscure corner of the internet, manfluencers have found ways to expand their audiences and exploit them for profit.

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