On August 23, 2021 the hashtag #हिंदुस्तान_धर्मशाला_नहीं_है (translation: Hindustan is not a public shelter) started trending on Twitter. Within a couple of hours the hashtag occupied a spot on India’s list of trending hashtags with over 20,000 tweets and retweets. Timeline of the tweets: The first instance of this hashtag was used on December 26, […]
Continue ReadingThe Hindu IT Cell is a page on twitter that claims to work towards the protection of dharma and catering to concerned Hindus through legal means. The account currently has 95.5k followers and is followed by verified handles such as Amit Kumar and Vijay Patel. The account’s founders Vikas Pandey and Ramesh Solanki are also […]
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Last couple of months have been a testament to just how much hate and humiliation people can be capable of. Justice for women in India is already not a well-executed reality but the situation is even worse for Muslim women and other female minorities. Two examples of just how much disrespect they have to endure […]
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A few days ago, a picture of a poster advertising houses ‘for sale’ in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad started to make rounds on social media. This prompted many verified social media handles to raise their concerns that a Hindu ‘exodus’ was happening in this neighborhood. According the claim, the 81 houses in this locality were being […]
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How the World is stepping up to combat hateful, harmful content online Although it is relatively common in mainstream society to condemn hate speech, including online hate speech, closer study shows that this mainstream consensus is not well enforced. Starting with the definition of hate speech and striking a balance between freedom of speech, freedom […]
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A fake account of former Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi has been consistently spreading fake news and hate on twitter. The username of this account is @THEGOGAI. This account was created in October 2019 and has a whopping 1,00,000 followers. The account’s content has got nothing to do with the figure it is impersonating […]
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