“If this happened in America with interracial couples being doxed, there would be rapid action, I am sure of it.”
at the same time that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tapped into Hindu nationalism to fuel his rise to power.for letting “love jihad”–related hate speech flourish on its platform in the past, the company did take down these particular instances of doxing whenever they were reported, two couples whose applications were posted to the platform told BuzzFeed News. But the documents, full of personal and identifying information, floated freely on Twitter for months.
“Hindu bloodlines are being exterminated; mass conversations in progress,” read a tweet from July that had nearly 3,000 retweets.“72 couples in total. This is a [campaign] to obliterate Hindus,” another read, with the hashtag #Hindus_Under_Attack. Critics both inside and outside the technology companies headquartered in California allege that the platforms have failed to combat global harm. As a recently fired Facebook employee complained in an internal memo, ““Love jihad is not a global campaign, but it’s high time for these Western companies to understand the real-world impact of something like this outside their geographies,” Athira Sujatha Radhakrishnan, a public policy professional in Bangalore, told BuzzFeed News.
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