YouTube and Reddit users who engage with anti-feminist content may become radicalised a subscription to alt-right beliefs, according to an analysis of 300 million comments on each platform.
Manoel Ribeiro and his colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne analysed the comments posted to 115 Reddit forums and 526 YouTube channels between 2006 and 2018 to see whether there was overlap between communities that expressed hate towards women, sometimes dubbed the “manosphere”, and alt-right groups.
Ribeiro wanted to investigate …