After last month's election, researchers documented a stunning rise in misogynistic rhetoric and attacks.

Laura Barone Lopez is here now with a conversation about what's behind that surge and how experts are combating it.

In just a 24-hour period after Election Day, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue tracked a 4,600%

increase in mentions of the terms, Your Body, My Choice, and Get Back in the Kitchen on

the social media platform X. One post by far right activist Nick Fuentes has been viewed

nearly 100 million times. But the misogyny is not just online.

For more on this trend in efforts to fight it,

I'm joined by Cynthia Miller Idris,

a professor at American University,

and director of the school's polarization and extremism,

Research and Innovation Lab, or Paril.

Cynthia, thanks for being back on the News Hour.

Thanks for having me.

First, help us unpack this increase.

What exactly did we see in this rise in misogynistic attacks online right after the election?

Well, first, we've been seeing that increasing trend for probably something like 18 months to

two years over the last period of time on many social media platforms.

And what we saw right around the election leading up to the election with a candidate who was a woman, a woman of color,

and then the reproductive rights that were also sort of at the heart of the election in many ways was a celebration in many ways by some young men who were viewed, you know,

whose posts were viewed many, many millions of times of this reclaiming of power over women

and power over women's bodies. And as I mentioned, at least some of that same rhetoric

and activity has since moved offline. How and where has that manifested?

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