For years, sociologist Elisa García-Mingo has immersed herself in the study of the machosphere, online communities that spread misogynistic content, whether through ridiculing comments and messages or by asking artificial intelligence to reinvent photographs of women to undress them.

First came the web users Forocoches with those endless threads of the purest brother-in-lawismAs social media has grown, so has the rise of... influencers antifeministswho make money by leading the backlash against machismo and misogyny, promoting hostility towards feminists and proclaiming that "violence has no gender." So great is the influence of these men—who claim to fight for "men's rights"—that the UN has issued a warning about the dangers of their power. machosphere (also known as manosphere)) when it comes to attracting younger generations.