Studies on the resurgence of right-wing regimes in the Global South have lately offered more evidence for how misogynistic attacks against dissenting voices constitute important elements of populist rhetoric online. A significant recent trend is the active incorporation of gendered narratives within digital influence and disinformation strategies aimed at securing political gains for sponsoring interest groups. Based on the case of online misogyny in Brazil under Bolsonaro, the article probes the promise and limitations of technological solutions, touted especially in the latest wave of excitement around artificial intelligence, in addressing emerging forms of gendered speech. Luise Koch and Sahana Udupa suggests that a far-reaching approach to misogynistic political campaigns requires that nuanced message-level intervention in terms of community-centric artificial intelligence-assisted moderation systems should be combined with measures to disrupt online and offline networks that right-wing regimes have raised to spread disinformation and extreme speech.

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The study received funding from the Bavarian Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) as part of the project "Understanding, detecting and mitigating online misogyny against politically active women". Furthermore, the work was supported by the European Research Council (Grant agreement number: 957442).