The worry trend of teenage boys being exposed to 'toxic' misogynistic online content

A cooking video? A cat doing something funny? A storytime about how a woman married a man only to later realise he had two entire secret families living in Rosslare?

What’s more, is that this content appeared within just 23 minutes of scrolling. By the end of the experiment , the vast majority of the content being viewed was dubbed “toxic” across both apps. The study was conducted by Professor Debbie Ging, Dr Catherine Baker and Dr Maja Andreasen, and tracked, recorded and coded the content recommended to 10 ‘sockpuppet’ accounts on 10 blank smartphones.“The overwhelming presence of Andrew Tate content in our data set at a time when he was de-platformed means that social media companies must tackle harmful content in more sophisticated ways,” she said.

But will this work be enough to combat the content being actively served to boys online? Or are we right to be concerned?

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