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December 9, 2025

Fostering Healthy Masculinities: Building Resilience Against Online Misogyny

ISD UK

Kids Online Safety, Misogyny

As part of the Digital Policy Lab, ISD organised three working group meetings on the topic titled “From Exposure to Empowerment: Interventions to Counter Online Misogyny” in September 2025. The working group consisted of DPL members including regulators, competent authorities and law enforcement from multiple jurisdictions, as well as representatives from civil society, international organisations, practitioners and academia.

While participants’ contributions have informed the analysis in this paper, the views expressed within do not necessarily reflect the views of all participants, nor any governments involved in this project.

In the media

Kremlin-linked accounts use beauty influencer imagery to target men with disinformation

Julia Ebner: “Misogyny is a central part of hateful extremism” and should be recognized as a hate crime

How misogynistic hate benefits from algorithms and propels through social media

See also

The ‘Cost of Doing Politics’? Gendered Abuse and Digital Platforms’ Role in Undermining Democracy

Mapping the GerManosphere: A Pilot Study

Algorithms as a Weapon Against Women: How YouTube Lures Boys and Young Men into the ‘Manosphere’

ISD Contributors

Zoe Manzi
Senior Analyst, Hate & Extremism

Helena Schwertheim
Senior Digital Policy & Research Manager

Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan
Analyst and Editorial Manager