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鈥淚t's a distortion of real pressures. When I'm analysing trends around men鈥�they are wanting to lean into what being a man means. In many cases strength, loyalty, protection. Those are not bad values. Those are being exploited, weaponised, and redirected in order to either sell a product or sell an idea.鈥�

Marianna Spring and Matt Shea speak to Kristina Wilfore, Director at Reset Tech, about their new report into the so-called 鈥楳ale Grievance Industry鈥�, which Kristina says is capitalising on the loneliness, economic anxiety, and identity of men. She argues it鈥檚 a growing business on social media which defrauds men by targeting them with content that distorts the real pressures they face.

She also reveals new data about looksmaxxing, the extreme cosmetic social media trend, which shows how just 216 accounts drove 14.6 billion views on this type of content within the last two years.

Thank you to the Top Comment team for its help in making this programme.

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(Image: Kristina Wilfore. Credit: Photo by Rachel Hofer)