Home Office commission paid ‘incels’ to take part in study

The Home Office’s CCE provides the government with ‘advice on all forms of extremism and commissions independent research to help shape policy’. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Hundreds of men who identified as “incels” or involuntary celibates were paid by a government body to take part in a survey.

Academics working for the Home Office’s Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE) gave the men £20 or $20 each for completing a 40-minute survey as part of an effort to investigate incel behaviour.