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Personalities from the so-called “manosphere,” including Andrew Tate, Sneako, Myron Gaines, Jon Zherka, and Hannah Pearl Davis, have expressed their support for disgraced former President Donald Trump. The manosphere is an online community of right-wing websites, bloggers, and influencers who repackage conservative, antifeminist, and regressive gender politics for the internet age, which they use to recruit and target young men. Over the past year, several of these misogynistic content creators have embraced a range of extreme ideologies, including Nazism and antisemitism. (In one instance, Zherka instructed a group of women to do a Nazi Sieg Heil during a livestream and say “heil Hitler.”) Some have also encouraged their audiences which includes pre-teens to abuse women. Several of these manosphere figures have featured white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on their shows. In 2022, Fuentes dined with Trump and pro-Hitler rapper Ye (formerly Kanye West