We turn now to growing concerns around the proliferation of misogyny online and its migration into real-world interactions, especially those involving young men.

John Yang has this story about a Detroit teenager's experience and the broader implications of this trend.

Like many his age, Brian Campbell says he grew up an iPad kid playing a lot of video games.

You're about to lose anyway. It don't matter.

And when the COVID pandemic forced schools to shift to remote learning when he was 12,

his primary connection with friends was online.

I would spend all my time on the Internet.

Either I'm playing the video game or on TikTok or both.

Fortnite, NBA 2K.

If me and my friends get bored playing it for 10 hours,

then we scroll on TikTok and send each other videos

and then we get back to playing the game.

Eventually, content with a specific perspective

started showing up on Campbell's feeds.

It is so easy to become a top-tier male in the world today because the competition is so

ridiculously low.

Topics masqueraded as informational kind of male improvement. I think a lot of those people

live more life. They're rich. They're nice car. All that. Like what society says is the ideal for a young man.

The message appealed to Campbell, and the more he engaged with it, the more he saw.

Campbell had found himself in the heart of what's known as the Manosphere.

The term broadly refers to online communities that create and share content aimed at men and boys. But there's

growing concern about the ideas behind that content, misogynistic, often conspiratorial

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