The manosphere is just the tip of the iceberg – that’s the premise of a new report, shared exclusively with Top Comment, about the so-called male grievance industry.

Its author, Kristina Wilfore, has spent years investigating state information warfare, a playbook she says is now being followed by influencers weaponising economic anxiety, body dysmorphia, and political disenfranchisement.

We’ve also been given access to brand new data about the viral looksmaxxing trend, which reveals how just 216 accounts drove 14.6bn views on this type of content within the last two years.

Kristina, Matt and Marianna discuss the pipeline behind these numbers, and with effective algorithmic regulation seemingly a way off, consider more ambitious methods to clamp down on the exploitative practices which mid-tier creators are using to monetise at scale.

You can access the full report from Reset Tech and Equimundo, ‘The Grift Economy: How Young Men Are Being Sold Fake Belonging and Fake Wealth Online’, via this link: https://www.equimundo.org/resources/the-grift-economy

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Officials in Russia and Ukraine have both reported deaths and injuries following attacks.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said the country’s military had hit two Russian oil refineries in “long-range” attacks.

Russia’s Yaroslav region has counted four injured in an attack on the Slavneft-Yanos oil refinery after huge clouds of smoke were seen over the city.

Russia’s regional governor in Yaroslavl called it the “largest ever attack by enemy drones”, saying 93 drones had been destroyed, but oil storage tanks had been hit by falling debris.

Across Russia, the military said it had intercepted and destroyed 605 Ukrainian drones in multiple regions, including Yaroslavl.

In Ukraine, officials said three people had been killed in a Russian drone attack on a residential area.

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At least seven people have died after a teenage boy allegedly shot his grandparents and some teachers at a school in Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Thailand’s capital Bangkok.

The 14-year-old suspected shooter is also dead, authorities say.

More than 30 people have been injured with nine of them “severely injured”, according to Thailand’s prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul.

This is the second school shooting in Thailand this year – despite restrictions on ownership, people can acquire guns here with relative ease.

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They’re one of the world’s biggest K-pop superbands, and their YouTube views currently stack up to more than 6 billion. Recently …

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