The group's activities are concentrated mainly on the Internet: members locate people (usually women) who express feminist or gay-friendly views on social media and target them with insults and threats of beatings or murder.

After the blocking of the "Male State" and two more of his communities on VKontakte, Pozdnyakov began to actively maintain his channel on Telegram, a messaging service, and has garnered more than 80 thousand subscribers.

In July 2021, Pozdnikov was accused of leading a hate campaign against the Russian wife of a Nigerian student who had drowned while rescuing a swimmer in western Russia's Kaliningrad region.

[18] On 18 October 2021, the Nizhny Novgorod regional court declared the organization extremist, thus banning its activities in Russia.

[10][19] On 4 August 2022, Male State and sympathizers targeted Dedaena Bar in Tbilisi because pro-Putin Russians are banned, posting thousands of negative reviews and hacking their website.