SIO514: No Part of the "62 Million Men Enrolled In Online Rape Academy" Claim Was Correct
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
You might have seen the CNN article from a while back entitled Exposing a global 'rape academy'. While most of the article is technically true, the broad takeaway that virtually everyone had (including me) was wildly, irresponsibly false.
Even if you came across debunks of this, there's a good chance that I'm debunking this even more than you've seen. I don't think people have fully grasped how misleading it was.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to serious think we're only. |
| 0:14.0 | This is episode 514. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm your host, Thomas Smith, and got a fun, what no? |
| 0:20.0 | Got an episode today. |
| 0:21.6 | So I was sort of expecting to do a third episode on the Trump shooting conspiracy theories |
| 0:26.8 | because I didn't even get to talk about the ballroom one. |
| 0:29.3 | But I feel like I pretty much said all I wanted to say on that. |
| 0:33.7 | I mean, there's some more specific to that shooting ones that I want to go through, |
| 0:38.7 | but I don't feel like I want to do a whole another episode on that. So I think I'm going to do |
| 0:44.5 | what I was going to do before that happened. I was actually set to talk about this on that weekend |
| 0:51.1 | that the shooting happened, and then that just felt way more immediate. |
| 0:55.1 | But depending on how things go, maybe I'll save some comments about the shooter and also |
| 0:59.0 | his manifesto, I think is really interesting. |
| 1:00.9 | I might comment on that. |
| 1:02.4 | At the end of this, we'll see. |
| 1:04.0 | But what I actually want to talk about, which you probably have seen from the title, is |
| 1:07.9 | this 62 million men online Rape claim. And also how it overlaps |
| 1:15.6 | with, you know, something I've been talking about and thinking a lot about, which is our |
| 1:19.6 | information environment, because it just feels like it's getting worse and worse and worse. And I don't |
| 1:23.8 | know how it could possibly be made better. But I'm just kind of wanting to talk about it and note it as we go. |
| 1:31.7 | And, you know, after full societal collapse, |
| 1:34.8 | it'll at least be here as a record. |
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