Collective Shout

06/02/2026

Our S*xual Harassment of Teachers (SHoT) report presents findings from a survey of over 1,000 teachers, conducted by Collective Shout in partnership with Maggie Dent.

Teachers reported widespread displays of misogynistic attitudes from male students - and, in some cases, male staff.

One teacher said, “The misogyny has gotten so much worse". Another reported that male students were “becoming increasingly misogynistic”.

The use of degrading language towards female students was frequently raised, with boys employing sexist slurs and objectifying remarks.

For more from our SHoT report, head to the link in comments.

05/02/2026

'Lessons on respectful relationships aren’t enough when teens are deluged with toxic messages about male domination, experts say'. MTR quoted in The Advertiser

Respectful relationships education should be explicitly rebranded as violence prevention to elevate its importance and tackle misogyny “head-on” in schools, according to some experts.

Collective Shout founder Melinda Tankard Reist said while the language used in school-based education programs was often softened to avoid alienating boys, it had the danger of masking the reality of rising misogynistic behaviour.

“It’s a fraught space,” she said. “I don’t know if we are being clear enough in defining the aims and intentions of respectful relationship programs…”

Ms Tankard Reist said boys were being groomed by misogynistic influencers such as Andrew Tate and that big tech companies were still a problem even with social media age restrictions.

“Boys aren’t born like this,” she said.

“We need to be looking at parasitic algorithms that pour misogynistic violence into boys’ feeds. Boys are being groomed by the culture into a sense of entitlement to do whatever they want to women and girls.”

04/02/2026

Grok app violates app store policies – so why haven’t Apple and Google removed it?

Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot has been used to create more than three million undressed and s*xualised images, including more than 23,000 images of children.

According to Wired:

‘Apple and Google both explicitly ban apps containing CSAM, which is illegal to host and distribute in many countries. The tech giants also forbid apps that contain p**nographic material or facilitate harassment. The Apple App Store says it doesn’t allow “overtly s*xual or p**nographic material,” as well as “defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content,” especially if the app is “likely to humiliate, intimidate, or harm a targeted individual or group.” The Google Play store bans apps that “contain or promote content associated with s*xually predatory behavior, or distribute non-consensual s*xual content,” as well as programs that “contain or facilitate threats, harassment, or bullying.”’

Apple and Google Play stores have previously removed n*difying apps for violating their terms of service. It’s time to get rid of Grok.

02/02/2026

📢 Media Release: Collective Shout calls on app stores to remove Grok until xAI disables n*difying feature used on three of our team

Grassroots campaigning movement Collective Shout: for a world free of s*xploitation has launched a global campaign calling on Apple and Google Play stores to remove the Grok app after its image editing feature was used to undress thousands of women and children - including three of our own team.

Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok has been used to digitally alter images of women and girls to create undressed, s*xualised and violent content which was published publicly on the social media platform.

Grok produced more than three million s*xual images, including more than 23,000 images of children.

In response to backlash, Grok‘s un******ng ability was limited to paying subscribers on X and in jurisdictions where it is illegal. However, the feature is still available on the Grok app which can be downloaded from the app stores.

Movement Director Melinda Tankard Reist said Musk’s response was inadequate.

“Grok is a digital weapon of abuse, creating new forms of online sexual assault”, she said. “The AI tool makes it easy to degrade, debase, harass and intimidate women.”

“Musk said deepfake Grok-enabled images would be investigated and removed where there were laws against them.

“This leaves millions of women and girls in most parts of the world vulnerable for harvesting for deepfake explicit content.

“Women portrayed s*xually in honour cultures could be killed.”

Our staff were undressed by Grok, morphed into extreme violent abuse material depicting them tortured and murdered and turned into AI deepfake p**n videos performing oral s*x.

Grok’s inclusion in the app stores is in violation of their own terms of service which prohibit CSAM, p**nographic content and apps that facilitate harassment or promote sexually predatory behaviour.

We demand Apple and Google Play stores remove the Grok app until the ability to undress women and children is permanently disabled. Over 1000 concerned individuals have so far used our action button to send emails to app store executives including Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Ms Tankard Reist said the app stores had previously removed apps designed to n*dify women and girls. “So why is Grok still there?” she asked.

“This app has been used to generate image-based abuse, s*xually explicit deepfake forgeries, p**nographic violation and child s*xual abuse material.

“Grok must be removed immediately before even more women and children are traumatised.”

February 2, 2026

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01/02/2026

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31/01/2026

Girls “marinating in a poisonous culture”: MTR in the Herald Sun

Australian girls are “marinating in a poisonous culture” with new research showing almost 27 per cent hold misogynistic views towards their own gender.

University of Melbourne research exploring the link between misogyny and violent extremism has revealed 27.3 per cent of girls aged 13 to 17 mistrust women, 20 per cent minimise violence against women, and 12.8 per cent excuse perpetrators of violence against women.

Collective Shout founder Melinda Tankard Reist said the results of the survey were “depressing”.

“It’s the classic internalised misogyny – women and girls blaming themselves, women and girls blaming each other, they are marinating in a poisonous culture,” she said.

“It feels like we have been going backwards for the past decade.”

Ms Tankard Reist said misogynistic content on platforms such as Tik Tok and OnlyFans, and the promotion of videos and antics of adult content creators such as Arabella Mia, Annie Knight, and Bonnie Blue as a way for girls to feel “validated”, contributed to the adoption of anti-feminist views.

“These girls are just being taught they only have one value and it’s to be sexually attractive and to offer yourself up for whatever any male wants,” she said.

“They’re learning from a p**n-soaked culture, a culture that is excusing poor male behaviour.”

30/01/2026

Since we launched this campaign a week ago, more than 1000 supporters have clicked our easy-to-use action button to email Apple and Google executives.

Help us double it!

Click the link to add your name now>> https://www.collectiveshout.org/remove_grok_from_app_stores

29/01/2026

We tested 20 nudifying, deepfake and AI “girlfriend” apps. The results were alarming - and they show why Grok sits in a wider ecosystem of tech-facilitated s*xual abuse.

App stores have removed nudifying apps before. Grok should be no exception.

See comments for the link to take action!

27/01/2026

TAKE ACTION: Tell App Store and Google Play to remove the Grok app until the ability to “undress” women and children is fully and permanently disabled for all users worldwide.

Link in comments!

25/01/2026

Our special investigation into n*difying apps featured on Irish Examiner front page

'Children are being “bombarded” online by so-called AI girlfriend p**n apps, which are “grooming” boys to perpetrate s*xual violence and girls to accept such behaviour.
Irish children’s charities and p**nography researchers say the only way to combat this growing problem is to “criminalise” p**n company bosses.

'The call comes as the British government announced it was banning AI girlfriend and ‘nudification’ apps and websites and after Australian research showed how some sites allow boys to digitally create scenes of women and underage girls being s*xually tortured by men…

'An Australian report, Turning Women and Girls into P**n, examined 20 AI girlfriend and n*dification apps which allow users to customise their own p**n girlfriend either from a digital gallery or from an image they can upload of a girl or woman.

'“Users can turn images of women and girls into extreme and degrading p**n scenarios,” the report said.

'The research, carried out by campaign group Collective Shout, said these apps also produce digital child s*xual abuse imagery: “Public galleries showcased an abundance of creations depicting underage girls, some who appeared to be prepubescent.”

22/01/2026

Elon Musk hasn’t stopped the harm - he’s just limited who can do it and where.

App Store and Google Play have removed nudifying apps before. Grok should be no exception.

TAKE ACTION 📣
Tell app stores to remove Grok - link in comments!