They’re the online gang of misogynistic trolls declared an extremist group by a court in Russia earlier this week.
New from @BcatMonitoring -- Inside the vile world of the Male State bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
New from @BcatMonitoring -- Inside the vile world of the Male State bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
@BcatMonitoring Founded by Vladislav Pozdnyakov — a man convicted of inciting hatred against women in 2018 — Male State’s tens of thousands of followers have been at the forefront of a backlash against gender equality in Russia, winning a fair share of headlines.
@BcatMonitoring In the past several months, they’ve harassed and threatened retailers who use Black models in their advertisements.
@BcatMonitoring Male State also posted the private contact details of a member of feminist protest group @pussyrrriot — who soon found herself the target of abuse — and reportedly sent threats to Russian women in relationships with non-Russian men. znak.com/2021-07-28/muz…
@BcatMonitoring @pussyrrriot All this and more saw Male State declared an extremist group by a Russian court earlier this week. However, Male State has said it will appeal the designation. themoscowtimes.com/2021/10/18/rus…
@BcatMonitoring @pussyrrriot Prior to the judgement, the group began deleting all the posts from its Telegram account made before September 2021 – a back catalogue of racist and sexist abuse lived on that channel.
@BcatMonitoring @pussyrrriot Yet Bellingcat researchers have been able to archive them all, including posts from a private group chat.
@BcatMonitoring @pussyrrriot This allowed us to piece together the growth of the archetypical online misogynist hate group — a trend which is, alas, hardly unique to Russia – and begin to answer the question: What is the Male State?
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