BBC Eye has just released a documentary that investigates the global expansion of the manosphere and the social media algorithms driving young men towards increasingly extreme views on gender, relationships and masculinity.
Reporter Jacqui Wakefield spent a year examining the rise of two of the most influential manosphere figures in Latin American and Africa – El Temach (real name Luis Castilleja) in Mexico and, Andrew Kibe (widely referred to as Kibe) in Kenya who have millions of followers – and speaking to women living with the real-life consequences of their influence to make the 54-minute Manosphere Messiahs that premiered on YouTube onThursday, May 28.
