Sometimes the only way out is in. Award-winning reporter My Vingren goes  undercover online, using fake profiles to expose how extremist movements are using  social media to recruit and radicalize. She successfully infiltrates a secret online nazi  organization, only to discover it’s an influence operation. Truth and reality twist as My  gets closer to the group’s inner circle and starts to question who is really pulling the  strings.

Having published some of the biggest investigations into white supremacist  movements in Sweden, the media has come to call her the “real life Girl with the  Dragon Tattoo”. But her investigations come with a price, she has to live at an  undisclosed address. Vingren is not alone in questioning the prevalence of hate  online. Her investigations connect her with Anika Collier Navaroli, the whistleblower  instrumental in Twitter’s suspension of Donald Trump, and Imran Ahmed, a  researcher sued by Elon Musk for exposing increasing hate speech on X. Together  they unpack the mechanisms of big social media companies that amplify and profit  from hate, and share how they are fighting to make tech platforms accountable for  their role in real-world violence.

Questions of power thread throughout My’s journey. She researches a far-right influencer in real life, and shows how some of the darkest corners of the web are  closer to home than we realize. Hacking Hate highlights the vulnerability of  democracy and calls for action against the spread of extreme and authoritarian  agendas online.