New Research Examines How Online Communities Connect and Spread Harmful Content
1 December 2025
Dessi Bocheva, Dr Joanne Hinds and Lukas Meyer’s paper ‘Examining membership across multiple online communities in the “manosphere”’ has been published in New Media and Society.
The study examines users engagement across diverse online spaces that constitute the manosphere using over 4 million Reddit posts from 20 “subreddits”. Multi-community membership may enable dissemination of harmful content to less-extreme spaces posing a greater challenge for moderators to track down and reduce users disseminating hateful ideology.