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October 25, 2022
Today, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, urged the CEOs of Alphabet and YouTube to take new, aggressive actions to limit the spread of extreme and harmful incel content on their platforms.
Incels, or “involuntary celibates,” are individuals – typically young men – who express extreme hatred of women and women’s equality, and believe women should be subjugated by men.
According to a newly-released report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Google and YoutTube are often used as easily-accessible pathways into the larger “incelosphere,” directing impressionable men to ideological instruction, recruiting material, and other dangerous content that encourages incel ideology. The report found Google searches regarding body image and unemployment present links to incelosphere sites on their first page of results, and active incel channels on YoutTube have accumulated more than 24 million views.
“The CCDH report makes clear that misogynist communities have created male-supremacist online spaces to promote their hateful and violent ideology, blaming women and minority groups for their problems. While incels have been described as loners or socially isolated, they in fact are embedded in highly active, densely-interconnected online communities that encourage and celebrate their horrific beliefs and acts,” the members wrote in a letter to the CEOs of Alphabet and YouTube......
