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Katherine Denkinson

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Plymouth, West
As seen in: BBC Sounds, MSN Australia, Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror, The Daily T, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), The Telegraph, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News UK and
Covers:  Politics, far right extremism, conspiracy groups, class issues, feminism, human rights.
Doesn't Cover: Beauty, Celebrity Gossip, Sport
Investigative journalist & OSINT bod. Author of Incel: The Weaponisation of Misogyny. Email: Katherinedenkinson@protonmail.com Also on Bluesky.

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Katherine Denkinson’s Biography

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Freelance investigative journalist and photographer with a background in forensic mental health.

Katherine Denkinson’s Journalist Portfolio

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They trade child sex abuse material. They find each other on TikTok

They trade child sex abuse material. They find each other on TikTok

A network for exchanging and selling CSAM is hiding in plain sight on the social platform. Can it be stopped?

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Strange But True Crime - Liar, Liar - BBC Sounds

Strange But True Crime - Liar, Liar - BBC Sounds

Catch up on your favourite BBC radio show from your favourite DJ right here, whenever you like. Listen withou…

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I was a policewoman who caught stalkers - then a gang of them came for me

I was a policewoman who caught stalkers - then a gang of them came for me

Janet Wendleken was looking forward to retiring until she became the latest victim in a targeted network of c…

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'Flag Man' Behind Nazi-Linked Anti-Migrant Protests Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Woman

'Flag Man' Behind Nazi-Linked Anti-Migrant Protests Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Woman

Craig Kitts, who says he is fighting to 'protect our women and children' from migrants, admitted to assault b…

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Reform UK Candidate Runs Firm Hired by Sanctioned Pro-Putin Bosnian Serb Leadership

Reform UK Candidate Runs Firm Hired by Sanctioned Pro-Putin Bosnian Serb Leadership

Kenneth Morris, who is standing for the party in Erdington, Birmingham, co-ordinates the UK arm of a transnat…

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God enters the manosphere

God enters the manosphere

Online influencers are using religion to give misogyny a virtuous veneer

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Articles

November 2026

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By Philip Ball Verified, Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Katherine Denkinson Verified
| Prospect Magazine Verified
Long life: At 93, I miss the Queen more than ever
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They trade child sex abuse material. They find each other on TikTok

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By Katherine Denkinson Verified
| Prospect Magazine Verified
My childhood was blissfully analogue. It was not until I went to university in the late 1990s that I got to experience the wonders of the world wide web. In the heady days when age verification meant clicking a box that said “I am over 18”, it was far easier to stumble across disturbing content.
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“Just asking questions”: Inside the ecosystem that turns silence into conspiracy

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By Katherine Denkinson Verified
| Substack
It starts with a tragic event; a woman goes missing, a young man attacks children at a dance class, and a female politician is brutally killed in her home. At first the online discussions are purely factual – dates, times and places – as people process what has happened. But, within hours, neighbourhood Facebook groups are awash with wild theories, prominent X accounts are suggesting a cover-up and hard Right politicians are promising to get to the bottom of it.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, about 20 years ago!

How is social media changing news?

It encourages lazy journalism; ie trawling Reddit for “stories”. Truth is becoming harder to pin down and opinions are becoming polarised.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Spider Jerusalem

Awards

Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils

2026 - Runner-Up
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