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The origins of incels

3 November 2022

Dr Kaitlyn Regehr (UCL Information Studies) explains how a combination of isolation and high dosages of online content has led to the sometimes violent extremism of young men identifying as “incels.”

Watch: Economist ‘Incels: How Extremism is Changing’ (from 2 mins 19 secs)