Eviane Leidig
@evianeleidig.com
Director of Research & Outreach, Center for the Study of Organized Hate @csohate.bsky.social
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
💻 evianeleidig.com
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
💻 evianeleidig.com
Islamophobia and the New York City Mayoral Election
New report out by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate
We analyzed the scale of hate on X targeting @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social throughout the election campaign ⤵️
www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i...
New report out by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate
We analyzed the scale of hate on X targeting @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social throughout the election campaign ⤵️
www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i...
Islamophobia and the New York City Mayoral Election
This report presents a quantitative analysis of online Islamophobic and xenophobic discourse surrounding the New York City mayoral campaign between June 24 and October 31, 2025.
www.csohate.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Islamophobia and the New York City Mayoral Election
New report out by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate
We analyzed the scale of hate on X targeting @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social throughout the election campaign ⤵️
www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i...
New report out by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate
We analyzed the scale of hate on X targeting @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social throughout the election campaign ⤵️
www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i...
✨ I’m thrilled to be joining the Center for the Study of Organized Hate as their new Director of Research and Outreach. ✨
In this pivotal moment, advancing research and building partnerships across policy and civil society to combat hate, extremism & digital harms is vital.
www.csohate.org
In this pivotal moment, advancing research and building partnerships across policy and civil society to combat hate, extremism & digital harms is vital.
www.csohate.org
Center For The Study Of Organized Hate (CSOH)
CSOH is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. dedicated to understanding, preventing, and combating multifaceted phenomena of organized hate.
www.csohate.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
✨ I’m thrilled to be joining the Center for the Study of Organized Hate as their new Director of Research and Outreach. ✨
In this pivotal moment, advancing research and building partnerships across policy and civil society to combat hate, extremism & digital harms is vital.
www.csohate.org
In this pivotal moment, advancing research and building partnerships across policy and civil society to combat hate, extremism & digital harms is vital.
www.csohate.org
It was great to be featured in @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social discussing how womanosphere influencers and podcasters have shaped MAGA and are redefining right-wing politics
Starting at 13:20: aje.io/aeb9kw
Starting at 13:20: aje.io/aeb9kw
October 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
It was great to be featured in @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social discussing how womanosphere influencers and podcasters have shaped MAGA and are redefining right-wing politics
Starting at 13:20: aje.io/aeb9kw
Starting at 13:20: aje.io/aeb9kw
It was a pleasure to join a panel discussion at @cidobbarcelona.bsky.social last week for the conference Democracies under threat: from disinformation to digital technocracy.
I spoke on the current state of online hate, radicalization & extremism and how to protect users from online harms.
I spoke on the current state of online hate, radicalization & extremism and how to protect users from online harms.
September 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It was a pleasure to join a panel discussion at @cidobbarcelona.bsky.social last week for the conference Democracies under threat: from disinformation to digital technocracy.
I spoke on the current state of online hate, radicalization & extremism and how to protect users from online harms.
I spoke on the current state of online hate, radicalization & extremism and how to protect users from online harms.
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New edited volume "Contemporary Far Right Culture" with chapters by C-REX scholar @grahammacklin.bsky.social and affiliate @evianeleidig.com. Check it out! www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
Contemporary Far-Right Culture: The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism
Contemporary Far-Right Culture offers a comprehensive overview of the varied manifestations of today’s far-right culture. It examines how far-right extremists operate in the spaces they inhabit, explo...
www.routledge.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
New edited volume "Contemporary Far Right Culture" with chapters by C-REX scholar @grahammacklin.bsky.social and affiliate @evianeleidig.com. Check it out! www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
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When I first started writing "The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging," I was reading
"The Women of the Far Right" by @evianeleidig.com and learning from her work. To now have her endorsement feels full circle. I am truly grateful.
noellecook.com/book
"The Women of the Far Right" by @evianeleidig.com and learning from her work. To now have her endorsement feels full circle. I am truly grateful.
noellecook.com/book
August 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
When I first started writing "The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging," I was reading
"The Women of the Far Right" by @evianeleidig.com and learning from her work. To now have her endorsement feels full circle. I am truly grateful.
noellecook.com/book
"The Women of the Far Right" by @evianeleidig.com and learning from her work. To now have her endorsement feels full circle. I am truly grateful.
noellecook.com/book
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Really glad to see @evianeleidig.com 's comments in this important article on weaponized femininity and extremism:
globalnews.ca/news/1130910...
globalnews.ca/news/1130910...
Extremist influencers ‘weaponizing femininity,’ warns Canadian intelligence report - National | Globalnews.ca
Government threat agency says extremist are embedding hardline ideology in everything from home finance videos to 'mommy blogs.'
globalnews.ca
July 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Really glad to see @evianeleidig.com 's comments in this important article on weaponized femininity and extremism:
globalnews.ca/news/1130910...
globalnews.ca/news/1130910...
This is a real—yes real—post for the One Big Beautiful Bill by the official White House account on Instagram
It’s giving MAGA makeover
It’s giving MAGA makeover
July 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is a real—yes real—post for the One Big Beautiful Bill by the official White House account on Instagram
It’s giving MAGA makeover
It’s giving MAGA makeover
With Turning Point’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit taking place this weekend, I spoke to Newsweek about the rise of conservative female influencers and their algorithmic amplification 🎙️ 🎥
Content creator Isabel Brown told Newsweek: "The future of conservatism is entirely dependent on this next generation of young women."
The rise of the young, female conservative influencer
www.newsweek.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
With Turning Point’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit taking place this weekend, I spoke to Newsweek about the rise of conservative female influencers and their algorithmic amplification 🎙️ 🎥
Join us for the ECPR Extremism & Democracy conference where I’ll be discussant for the brilliant panel on food and the far right 🥛🥩🥚 with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @drkondor.bsky.social @manesweisskircher.bsky.social @gretajasser.bsky.social @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social
Join us in London next week for our @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference. Keynote by @kai-arzheimer.com, roundtable and panels on populism and radicalism. Observer only registration available- with @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @profannikawerner.bsky.social @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @sajuria.com
Conference of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, Queen Mary University of London, 9 – 10 June 2025
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
June 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Join us for the ECPR Extremism & Democracy conference where I’ll be discussant for the brilliant panel on food and the far right 🥛🥩🥚 with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @drkondor.bsky.social @manesweisskircher.bsky.social @gretajasser.bsky.social @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social
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📢 Our new article in the Nordic Journal of Media Studies is out, co-written with @evianeleidig.com
We look at community-building around 'right-wing bodybuilder' masculinist influencers. You can check it out here: sciendo.com/article/10.2...
We look at community-building around 'right-wing bodybuilder' masculinist influencers. You can check it out here: sciendo.com/article/10.2...
“Heil Sol Brah”: Community-building practices around...
In this article, we explore community-building practices among followers of far-right masculinist influencers. Utilising visual ethnography and...
sciendo.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
📢 Our new article in the Nordic Journal of Media Studies is out, co-written with @evianeleidig.com
We look at community-building around 'right-wing bodybuilder' masculinist influencers. You can check it out here: sciendo.com/article/10.2...
We look at community-building around 'right-wing bodybuilder' masculinist influencers. You can check it out here: sciendo.com/article/10.2...
🚨 New article with the brilliant @joshuafmolloy.bsky.social
We dive into the online community of right-wing body builders (RWBB) 🥚🥩🥛
open access: sciendo.com/article/10.2...
We dive into the online community of right-wing body builders (RWBB) 🥚🥩🥛
open access: sciendo.com/article/10.2...
May 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🚨 New article with the brilliant @joshuafmolloy.bsky.social
We dive into the online community of right-wing body builders (RWBB) 🥚🥩🥛
open access: sciendo.com/article/10.2...
We dive into the online community of right-wing body builders (RWBB) 🥚🥩🥛
open access: sciendo.com/article/10.2...
This past weekend was the Remigration Summit, a far-right conference that calls to deport migrants to solve the Great Replacement.
Their 3 rules to make ‘remigration’ mainstream:
1. Repeat the term for visibility
2. Provoke a sense of public outrage
3. Use humor & memes to communicate
Their 3 rules to make ‘remigration’ mainstream:
1. Repeat the term for visibility
2. Provoke a sense of public outrage
3. Use humor & memes to communicate
May 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
This past weekend was the Remigration Summit, a far-right conference that calls to deport migrants to solve the Great Replacement.
Their 3 rules to make ‘remigration’ mainstream:
1. Repeat the term for visibility
2. Provoke a sense of public outrage
3. Use humor & memes to communicate
Their 3 rules to make ‘remigration’ mainstream:
1. Repeat the term for visibility
2. Provoke a sense of public outrage
3. Use humor & memes to communicate
If only there was a book about this 🤔
While the women behind "womanosphere" outlets all have different styles and tactics, they are mostly aligned in their desire to return to a gender-essentialist worldview: women as submissive homemakers, men as strong providers.
Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican
www.theguardian.com
April 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
If only there was a book about this 🤔
A key takeaway is that right-wing influencers and pundits have invested into cultural and lifestyle spaces (health & wellness, fitness, finance, self-help) as a gateway for political messaging
Listen to this week’s OTM in which @brookegladstone.bsky.social and @micahloewinger.bsky.social spent 12 hours in the MAGA media-verse. Spoiler alert: it’s a weird place. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Brooke and Micah Enter the MAGA-verse. Plus, Liberal YouTubers Fight Back. | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Conservative influencers have captured a massive audience on the internet, boasting nearly five times more followers than their progressive competitors. On this week’s On the Media, t...
www.wnycstudios.org
April 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A key takeaway is that right-wing influencers and pundits have invested into cultural and lifestyle spaces (health & wellness, fitness, finance, self-help) as a gateway for political messaging
I gave a talk last month about far right anxieties of birth rates and natalism is the latest dog whistle among fascist tech bros
April 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I gave a talk last month about far right anxieties of birth rates and natalism is the latest dog whistle among fascist tech bros
I had the pleasure to join @mollythomastv.bsky.social and @philofwrite.bsky.social on Big [If True] @tvotoday.bsky.social for the latest episode on tradwives, misinformation & conspiracy theories 🧺🌾💉
www.tvo.org/video/trendi...
www.tvo.org/video/trendi...
April 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I had the pleasure to join @mollythomastv.bsky.social and @philofwrite.bsky.social on Big [If True] @tvotoday.bsky.social for the latest episode on tradwives, misinformation & conspiracy theories 🧺🌾💉
www.tvo.org/video/trendi...
www.tvo.org/video/trendi...
Looking forward to joining this webinar on far-right hate speech online starting soon 💻
Will be live streamed on YouTube
Will be live streamed on YouTube
📢 ONLINE EVENT TODAY: Far-Right Hate Speech Online: Too Late To Stop? Is far-right hate speech now embedded in digital spaces?
🗓 25 March | 14:00 CET | Online (interpretation into German provided)
Register now 👉 buff.ly/FDbTkvg
#reco_dar #extremism @modus-zad.bsky.social
🗓 25 March | 14:00 CET | Online (interpretation into German provided)
Register now 👉 buff.ly/FDbTkvg
#reco_dar #extremism @modus-zad.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Looking forward to joining this webinar on far-right hate speech online starting soon 💻
Will be live streamed on YouTube
Will be live streamed on YouTube
Tradwives, sourdough, manfluencers: What is the conservative aesthetic? 🌾🐄🥛
I spoke to Marni Rose McFall at @newsweek.com about the reactionary politics behind conservative online content
www.newsweek.com/rise-conserv...
I spoke to Marni Rose McFall at @newsweek.com about the reactionary politics behind conservative online content
www.newsweek.com/rise-conserv...
Tradwives, sourdough, manfluencers: What is the conversative aesthetic?
From beef tallow to Sex and the City's Charlotte York and the stay-at-home-girlfriend trend, traditional gender roles have a new brand.
www.newsweek.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Tradwives, sourdough, manfluencers: What is the conservative aesthetic? 🌾🐄🥛
I spoke to Marni Rose McFall at @newsweek.com about the reactionary politics behind conservative online content
www.newsweek.com/rise-conserv...
I spoke to Marni Rose McFall at @newsweek.com about the reactionary politics behind conservative online content
www.newsweek.com/rise-conserv...
It was a pleasure to participate in the International Women’s Day panel hosted by @unioslo-stk.bsky.social in Oslo
I spoke about far right anxieties of fertility and reproduction in creating moral panics
#IWD2025
I spoke about far right anxieties of fertility and reproduction in creating moral panics
#IWD2025
March 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
It was a pleasure to participate in the International Women’s Day panel hosted by @unioslo-stk.bsky.social in Oslo
I spoke about far right anxieties of fertility and reproduction in creating moral panics
#IWD2025
I spoke about far right anxieties of fertility and reproduction in creating moral panics
#IWD2025
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What’s at stake in public panics about (in)fertility? Register for the International Women's Day seminar on reproduction issues, exploring gender, sexuality, race, and class influences. Presentation by C-REX affiliate @evianeleidig.com, among others. www.uio.no/english/abou...
What’s at stake in public panics about (in)fertility?
- University of Oslo
This International Women's Day seminar takes a look at concerns about reproduction in the past and present, focusing on the role that gender, sexuality, race and class play in these debates.
www.uio.no
February 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
What’s at stake in public panics about (in)fertility? Register for the International Women's Day seminar on reproduction issues, exploring gender, sexuality, race, and class influences. Presentation by C-REX affiliate @evianeleidig.com, among others. www.uio.no/english/abou...
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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
February 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
New Zealand’s internet safety agencies take legal action against the Human Rights Commission after it called out that X and Meta failed to protect former PM @jacindaardern.bsky.social from rampant online abuse, misogyny & hate
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Tech agencies lawyer up after claim they failed to protect Jacinda Ardern from ‘violence, misogyny’
Hundreds of people called the former prime minister vile and dehumanising things online. Internet safety agencies did nothing - then called in the lawyers.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
New Zealand’s internet safety agencies take legal action against the Human Rights Commission after it called out that X and Meta failed to protect former PM @jacindaardern.bsky.social from rampant online abuse, misogyny & hate
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
The one on the left claims to be Elon Musk’s baby mama. The one on the right was indicted by the DOJ for spreading pro-Kremlin narratives.
You literally can’t make this up.
You literally can’t make this up.
February 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The one on the left claims to be Elon Musk’s baby mama. The one on the right was indicted by the DOJ for spreading pro-Kremlin narratives.
You literally can’t make this up.
You literally can’t make this up.
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I spoke about the unfolding tech coup in the US and my book of the same title on CNN Amanpour & Co. Watch here ↘️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=8lvU...
“The Tech Coup:" Expert Warns of Silicon Valley’s Influence on Washington | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
m.youtube.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I spoke about the unfolding tech coup in the US and my book of the same title on CNN Amanpour & Co. Watch here ↘️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=8lvU...