Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH)
@csohate.bsky.social
CSOH is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to understanding, preventing, and combating organized hate. Website: https://www.csohate.org
📢 2025 Report on Hate Speech Events in India is out!
Our India project, India Hate Lab documented 1,318 in-person hate speech events targeting religious minorities, primarily Muslims and Christians in 2025.
This marks a 13% increase from 2024 and a 97% rise since 2023.
tinyurl.com/3t9bfwad
Our India project, India Hate Lab documented 1,318 in-person hate speech events targeting religious minorities, primarily Muslims and Christians in 2025.
This marks a 13% increase from 2024 and a 97% rise since 2023.
tinyurl.com/3t9bfwad
January 13, 2026 at 12:54 PM
📢 2025 Report on Hate Speech Events in India is out!
Our India project, India Hate Lab documented 1,318 in-person hate speech events targeting religious minorities, primarily Muslims and Christians in 2025.
This marks a 13% increase from 2024 and a 97% rise since 2023.
tinyurl.com/3t9bfwad
Our India project, India Hate Lab documented 1,318 in-person hate speech events targeting religious minorities, primarily Muslims and Christians in 2025.
This marks a 13% increase from 2024 and a 97% rise since 2023.
tinyurl.com/3t9bfwad
Islamophobia is reaching alarming levels in the US, with Muslim advocacy organizations increasingly targeted through coordinated political attacks. Even more troubling is the silence from much of the political establishment across party lines.
December 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Islamophobia is reaching alarming levels in the US, with Muslim advocacy organizations increasingly targeted through coordinated political attacks. Even more troubling is the silence from much of the political establishment across party lines.
Despite numbering only a few thousand people, Japan’s Kurdish community has become the target of intense xenophobic hate campaigns driven by far-right politicians, sensationalist media coverage, and online mobilization.
www.csohate.org/2025/12/23/a...
#kurdish #japan #tokyo #Kawaguchi
www.csohate.org/2025/12/23/a...
#kurdish #japan #tokyo #Kawaguchi
How Kurds Became a Target of Organized Hate in Japan
A small Kurdish community in Japan has become the target of xenophobic hate campaigns driven by far-right politicians, sensationalist media coverage, and online mobilization.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Despite numbering only a few thousand people, Japan’s Kurdish community has become the target of intense xenophobic hate campaigns driven by far-right politicians, sensationalist media coverage, and online mobilization.
www.csohate.org/2025/12/23/a...
#kurdish #japan #tokyo #Kawaguchi
www.csohate.org/2025/12/23/a...
#kurdish #japan #tokyo #Kawaguchi
The New York Times features our research in its latest reporting on the surge in anti-Indian bigotry.
This hate sits squarely within a broader pattern of racialized targeting of all immigrants and communities of color.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
This hate sits squarely within a broader pattern of racialized targeting of all immigrants and communities of color.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
December 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The New York Times features our research in its latest reporting on the surge in anti-Indian bigotry.
This hate sits squarely within a broader pattern of racialized targeting of all immigrants and communities of color.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
This hate sits squarely within a broader pattern of racialized targeting of all immigrants and communities of color.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Online hate has real-world consequences. In 2024, race and ethnicity based hate incidents targeting Indians in the United States rose significantly.
Hear Stephanie Chan of Stop AAPI Hate, break down the survey findings.
Watch: youtu.be/AZcVU3KXnts?...
Hear Stephanie Chan of Stop AAPI Hate, break down the survey findings.
Watch: youtu.be/AZcVU3KXnts?...
December 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Online hate has real-world consequences. In 2024, race and ethnicity based hate incidents targeting Indians in the United States rose significantly.
Hear Stephanie Chan of Stop AAPI Hate, break down the survey findings.
Watch: youtu.be/AZcVU3KXnts?...
Hear Stephanie Chan of Stop AAPI Hate, break down the survey findings.
Watch: youtu.be/AZcVU3KXnts?...
📣 CSOH is Hiring!
We’re expanding our global research team and hiring three researchers across Europe/North America, Southeast Asia and South Asia to support our work on digital harms, extremism, and influence operations.
Applications are now open.
More details: www.csohate.org/work-with-us/
We’re expanding our global research team and hiring three researchers across Europe/North America, Southeast Asia and South Asia to support our work on digital harms, extremism, and influence operations.
Applications are now open.
More details: www.csohate.org/work-with-us/
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
📣 CSOH is Hiring!
We’re expanding our global research team and hiring three researchers across Europe/North America, Southeast Asia and South Asia to support our work on digital harms, extremism, and influence operations.
Applications are now open.
More details: www.csohate.org/work-with-us/
We’re expanding our global research team and hiring three researchers across Europe/North America, Southeast Asia and South Asia to support our work on digital harms, extremism, and influence operations.
Applications are now open.
More details: www.csohate.org/work-with-us/
#NEW: Our latest report maps the rise of Hindu nationalist groups in Sri Lanka and documents the emerging patterns of hate, grassroots mobilization, and the growing alignment with cross-border Hindu nationalist networks.
www.csohate.org/2025/12/07/c...
#Srilanka #SivaSenai #RudraSena #RavanaSena
www.csohate.org/2025/12/07/c...
#Srilanka #SivaSenai #RudraSena #RavanaSena
Contours of Emerging Hate in Sri Lanka
This report maps the rise of Hindu nationalist groups in Sri Lanka and examines the new patterns of hate, mobilization, and their impact on minority communities.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
#NEW: Our latest report maps the rise of Hindu nationalist groups in Sri Lanka and documents the emerging patterns of hate, grassroots mobilization, and the growing alignment with cross-border Hindu nationalist networks.
www.csohate.org/2025/12/07/c...
#Srilanka #SivaSenai #RudraSena #RavanaSena
www.csohate.org/2025/12/07/c...
#Srilanka #SivaSenai #RudraSena #RavanaSena
🚨 Online anti-Afghan hate surged dramatically after the D.C. shooting.
New analysis from CSOH and Afghan American Foundation (AAF) shows a rapid escalation across social media platforms.
MORE: www.csohate.org/2025/12/04/a...
New analysis from CSOH and Afghan American Foundation (AAF) shows a rapid escalation across social media platforms.
MORE: www.csohate.org/2025/12/04/a...
December 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
🚨 Online anti-Afghan hate surged dramatically after the D.C. shooting.
New analysis from CSOH and Afghan American Foundation (AAF) shows a rapid escalation across social media platforms.
MORE: www.csohate.org/2025/12/04/a...
New analysis from CSOH and Afghan American Foundation (AAF) shows a rapid escalation across social media platforms.
MORE: www.csohate.org/2025/12/04/a...
CSOH Executive Director Raqib Naik spoke with Sky News about the growing disinformation campaigns and use of deepfakes targeting political opposition in the subcontinent, and how they are inflaming tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors, India and Pakistan.
youtu.be/f6XGZfZcbTI?...
youtu.be/f6XGZfZcbTI?...
How disinformation was used to try inflame India Pakistan tensions
YouTube video by Sky News
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December 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
CSOH Executive Director Raqib Naik spoke with Sky News about the growing disinformation campaigns and use of deepfakes targeting political opposition in the subcontinent, and how they are inflaming tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors, India and Pakistan.
youtu.be/f6XGZfZcbTI?...
youtu.be/f6XGZfZcbTI?...
Age-progression filters and viral image-based trends are contributing to biometric datasets critical to fuel AI-enabled militarised surveillance and targeting systems, writes @hijakamran.bsky.social in this latest analysis piece for CSOH.
READ: www.csohate.org/2025/12/01/s...
READ: www.csohate.org/2025/12/01/s...
Social Media Trends Fuel AI Surveillance, Militarisation, and the Future of Targeted Hate
Age-progression filters and viral image-based trends are contributing to biometric datasets critical to fuel AI-enabled militarised surveillance and targeting systems.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Age-progression filters and viral image-based trends are contributing to biometric datasets critical to fuel AI-enabled militarised surveillance and targeting systems, writes @hijakamran.bsky.social in this latest analysis piece for CSOH.
READ: www.csohate.org/2025/12/01/s...
READ: www.csohate.org/2025/12/01/s...
Important new column in New York Magazine on the growing wave of Islamophobia in the US, which cites our recent report and includes insights from our executive director, Raqib Naik.
Zohran Mamdani won, but the impact of the hate speech used against him in this year’s mayoral campaign will linger and could lead to real-world harm, writes Errol Louis.
Mamdani Won, But Our Battle Against Islamophobia Isn’t Over
Zohran Mamdani won, but the impact of the hate speech used against him in this year’s mayoral campaign will linger and could lead to real-world harm, writes Errol Louis.
nymag.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Important new column in New York Magazine on the growing wave of Islamophobia in the US, which cites our recent report and includes insights from our executive director, Raqib Naik.
On November 19 in Luxembourg, CSOH Director of Research and Outreach @evianeleidig.com delivered a keynote at Dialogue Day organized by Respect.lu.
The talk focused on tradwives, manfluencers, and the ways gendered online subcultures shape pathways into algorithmic radicalization.
The talk focused on tradwives, manfluencers, and the ways gendered online subcultures shape pathways into algorithmic radicalization.
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
On November 19 in Luxembourg, CSOH Director of Research and Outreach @evianeleidig.com delivered a keynote at Dialogue Day organized by Respect.lu.
The talk focused on tradwives, manfluencers, and the ways gendered online subcultures shape pathways into algorithmic radicalization.
The talk focused on tradwives, manfluencers, and the ways gendered online subcultures shape pathways into algorithmic radicalization.
In the US and Canada, we are seeing an ethnic distanciation within South Asian communities at a moment when solidarity is most needed. Long-settled and multi-generation South Asians often blame newly arriving immigrants.
This framing obscures the real issue. Racism targets all racialized bodies.
This framing obscures the real issue. Racism targets all racialized bodies.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In the US and Canada, we are seeing an ethnic distanciation within South Asian communities at a moment when solidarity is most needed. Long-settled and multi-generation South Asians often blame newly arriving immigrants.
This framing obscures the real issue. Racism targets all racialized bodies.
This framing obscures the real issue. Racism targets all racialized bodies.
A fringe “cauliflower” meme used as a coded call for anti-Muslim violence and once limited to online extremist spaces is now showing up in India’s political mainstream.
More: www.csohate.org/2025/11/21/i...
More: www.csohate.org/2025/11/21/i...
The Dangerous Rise of India’s 'Cauliflower' Meme
A fringe meme celebrating anti-Muslim violence has entered India’s political mainstream. Its spread shows how coded hate travels from extremist subcultures to national leaders, normalizing dangerous s...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
A fringe “cauliflower” meme used as a coded call for anti-Muslim violence and once limited to online extremist spaces is now showing up in India’s political mainstream.
More: www.csohate.org/2025/11/21/i...
More: www.csohate.org/2025/11/21/i...
Last week in Brussels, CSOH’s Director of Research and Outreach, @evianeleidig.com, spoke at the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation, where she discussed the evolution of the Great Replacement theory through a gender lens and the growing mainstreaming of “Remigration.”
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Last week in Brussels, CSOH’s Director of Research and Outreach, @evianeleidig.com, spoke at the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation, where she discussed the evolution of the Great Replacement theory through a gender lens and the growing mainstreaming of “Remigration.”
Anti South Asian slurs associated with targeted violence are on rise across online spaces.
Hear Stephanie Chan Director of Data & Research at @stopaapihate.org, explain these trends in detail.
Watch full remarks: youtu.be/AZcVU3KXnts?...
#southasians #onlineharms #Racism
Hear Stephanie Chan Director of Data & Research at @stopaapihate.org, explain these trends in detail.
Watch full remarks: youtu.be/AZcVU3KXnts?...
#southasians #onlineharms #Racism
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Anti South Asian slurs associated with targeted violence are on rise across online spaces.
Hear Stephanie Chan Director of Data & Research at @stopaapihate.org, explain these trends in detail.
Watch full remarks: youtu.be/AZcVU3KXnts?...
#southasians #onlineharms #Racism
Hear Stephanie Chan Director of Data & Research at @stopaapihate.org, explain these trends in detail.
Watch full remarks: youtu.be/AZcVU3KXnts?...
#southasians #onlineharms #Racism
Tomorrow, our executive director Raqib Naik will speak alongside Azadeh Shahshahani of Project South at Harvard Kennedy School event on the expanding use of “counterterrorism” frameworks and how they enable political suppression of marginalized communities and social justice movements.
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Tomorrow, our executive director Raqib Naik will speak alongside Azadeh Shahshahani of Project South at Harvard Kennedy School event on the expanding use of “counterterrorism” frameworks and how they enable political suppression of marginalized communities and social justice movements.
In South Asia, AI tools are accelerating political manipulation, deepening misinformation ecosystems, and fueling new forms of synthetic propaganda.
Read: www.csohate.org/2025/11/14/a...
Read: www.csohate.org/2025/11/14/a...
Artificial Intelligence and the Escalation of Political Manipulation in South Asia
AI-generated content is accelerating political manipulation and reshaping digital propaganda in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
www.csohate.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
In South Asia, AI tools are accelerating political manipulation, deepening misinformation ecosystems, and fueling new forms of synthetic propaganda.
Read: www.csohate.org/2025/11/14/a...
Read: www.csohate.org/2025/11/14/a...
CNN features CSOH’s new research on online anti-Indian racism and xenophobia, and the ways far-right narratives are taking hold across the US, shaping both digital discourse and the lived experiences of South Asian communities.
Read: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...
Read: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
CNN features CSOH’s new research on online anti-Indian racism and xenophobia, and the ways far-right narratives are taking hold across the US, shaping both digital discourse and the lived experiences of South Asian communities.
Read: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...
Read: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...
Earlier this month, CSOH joined 1,000+ civil society leaders from across the world in Bangkok for International Civil Society Week (ICSW), hosted by @civicusalliance.bsky.social and the Asia Democracy Network.
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Earlier this month, CSOH joined 1,000+ civil society leaders from across the world in Bangkok for International Civil Society Week (ICSW), hosted by @civicusalliance.bsky.social and the Asia Democracy Network.
Highlights from the “Big Tech, Democracy, and Human Rights in South Asia” conference held this Wednesday at the UC Berkeley.
We brought together journalists, digital rights advocates, and scholars to examine how social media platforms are reshaping democracy and human rights across South Asia.
We brought together journalists, digital rights advocates, and scholars to examine how social media platforms are reshaping democracy and human rights across South Asia.
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Highlights from the “Big Tech, Democracy, and Human Rights in South Asia” conference held this Wednesday at the UC Berkeley.
We brought together journalists, digital rights advocates, and scholars to examine how social media platforms are reshaping democracy and human rights across South Asia.
We brought together journalists, digital rights advocates, and scholars to examine how social media platforms are reshaping democracy and human rights across South Asia.
The New York City mayoral elections revealed how quickly online dehumanizing, Islamophobic rhetoric can take hold and how dangerous it becomes in a country already grappling with polarization and rising political violence.
Our research featured on @aljazeera.com
Our research featured on @aljazeera.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The New York City mayoral elections revealed how quickly online dehumanizing, Islamophobic rhetoric can take hold and how dangerous it becomes in a country already grappling with polarization and rising political violence.
Our research featured on @aljazeera.com
Our research featured on @aljazeera.com
Reposted by Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH)
I'll also share some analysis @csohate.bsky.social did regarding Islamophobia in the NYC mayoral election as it appeared on X/Twitter. This provides some more context on the broader landscape these attacks on CAIR occurred in.
www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i...
www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i...
Islamophobia and the New York City Mayoral Election
This report presents a quantitative analysis of online Islamophobic and xenophobic discourse surrounding the New York City mayoral campaign between June 24 and October 31, 2025.
www.csohate.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I'll also share some analysis @csohate.bsky.social did regarding Islamophobia in the NYC mayoral election as it appeared on X/Twitter. This provides some more context on the broader landscape these attacks on CAIR occurred in.
www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i...
www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i...
Reposted by Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH)
I wrote about the recent attacks on Indians in Ireland for the Center for the Study of Organized Hate, and the need for the political and media establishment to reckon with their role in creating an increasingly hostile atmosphere for immigrants
www.csohate.org/2025/08/14/r...
www.csohate.org/2025/08/14/r...
Wave of Racist Attacks on Indians in Ireland Exposes Far Right’s Growing Shadow
Recent attacks on Indians highlight rising racist violence in Ireland and the complicity of politics and media in fueling hostility toward immigrants.
www.csohate.org
August 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I wrote about the recent attacks on Indians in Ireland for the Center for the Study of Organized Hate, and the need for the political and media establishment to reckon with their role in creating an increasingly hostile atmosphere for immigrants
www.csohate.org/2025/08/14/r...
www.csohate.org/2025/08/14/r...
Reposted by Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH)
How do "community" fact-checking tools operate in South Asia where misinformation is entangled with high levels of political polarization, religious & ethnic divisions, and a massive user base generating multilingual content?
Read this new report by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate ⬇️
Read this new report by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate ⬇️
X’s Community Notes and the South Asian Misinformation Crisis
This report examines the performance of X’s Community Notes feature in South Asia, with a focus on adoption, linguistic representation, and impact in the region.
www.csohate.org
July 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
How do "community" fact-checking tools operate in South Asia where misinformation is entangled with high levels of political polarization, religious & ethnic divisions, and a massive user base generating multilingual content?
Read this new report by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate ⬇️
Read this new report by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate ⬇️