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
January 13, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Social media continues to serve as the critical infrastructure for disseminating and normalizing hate and incitement to violence.
January 13, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Social media continues to serve as the critical infrastructure for disseminating and normalizing hate and incitement to violence.
Nearly 88 percent of all hate speech events took place in states governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), reflecting a 25 percent increase from 2024.
January 13, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Nearly 88 percent of all hate speech events took place in states governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), reflecting a 25 percent increase from 2024.
Muslims continued to be the most heavily targeted group, with hate speech against Muslims rising by nearly 12 percent from 2024. Anti-Christian hate rose even faster, increasing by nearly 41 percent over the previous year.
January 13, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Muslims continued to be the most heavily targeted group, with hate speech against Muslims rising by nearly 12 percent from 2024. Anti-Christian hate rose even faster, increasing by nearly 41 percent over the previous year.
📢 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.
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/
🚨 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...
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.
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.
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
In Germany, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is weaponizing AI generated imagery to craft hyper-nationalist, anti-refugee, and Islamophobic aesthetics, turning social anxieties into imagined threats to the country.
Read: www.csohate.org/2025/10/13/a...
Read: www.csohate.org/2025/10/13/a...
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
In Germany, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is weaponizing AI generated imagery to craft hyper-nationalist, anti-refugee, and Islamophobic aesthetics, turning social anxieties into imagined threats to the country.
Read: www.csohate.org/2025/10/13/a...
Read: www.csohate.org/2025/10/13/a...
When Kabul fell in 2021, tens of thousands of Afghans turned to the US for refuge. Many arrived with the expectation of safety & stability.
Four years later, they find themselves navigating a different kind of threat: a growing wave of anti-Afghan sentiment.
Read: www.csohate.org/2025/10/23/a...
Four years later, they find themselves navigating a different kind of threat: a growing wave of anti-Afghan sentiment.
Read: www.csohate.org/2025/10/23/a...
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
When Kabul fell in 2021, tens of thousands of Afghans turned to the US for refuge. Many arrived with the expectation of safety & stability.
Four years later, they find themselves navigating a different kind of threat: a growing wave of anti-Afghan sentiment.
Read: www.csohate.org/2025/10/23/a...
Four years later, they find themselves navigating a different kind of threat: a growing wave of anti-Afghan sentiment.
Read: www.csohate.org/2025/10/23/a...
Our latest data shows a disturbing escalation of online hate targeting Zohran Mamdani and Muslim New Yorkers on X (formerly Twitter). Between November 1 and 5, we recorded 7,449 Islamophobic and xenophobic posts, with a staggering 5,307 (71%) posted on just November 4 and 5.
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Our latest data shows a disturbing escalation of online hate targeting Zohran Mamdani and Muslim New Yorkers on X (formerly Twitter). Between November 1 and 5, we recorded 7,449 Islamophobic and xenophobic posts, with a staggering 5,307 (71%) posted on just November 4 and 5.
Next Wednesday (November 12), the Big Tech, Democracy, and Human Rights in South Asia conference will take place at the University of California, Berkeley.
Registration details: www.csohate.org/big-tech-dem...
#SouthAsiaTechConf2025
Registration details: www.csohate.org/big-tech-dem...
#SouthAsiaTechConf2025
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Next Wednesday (November 12), the Big Tech, Democracy, and Human Rights in South Asia conference will take place at the University of California, Berkeley.
Registration details: www.csohate.org/big-tech-dem...
#SouthAsiaTechConf2025
Registration details: www.csohate.org/big-tech-dem...
#SouthAsiaTechConf2025
What we witnessed around the New York City Mayoral elections reflects a broader and growing pattern of dehumanising rhetoric against Muslims that has taken deep root in American public life.
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
What we witnessed around the New York City Mayoral elections reflects a broader and growing pattern of dehumanising rhetoric against Muslims that has taken deep root in American public life.
Our latest report uncovers a staggering campaign of Islamophobia and xenophobia on X (formerly Twitter) that reached 1.5 billion impressions targeting Zohran Mamdani during the New York City mayoral election.
More: www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i...
#mamdani #zohranmamdani #nyc
More: www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i...
#mamdani #zohranmamdani #nyc
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Our latest report uncovers a staggering campaign of Islamophobia and xenophobia on X (formerly Twitter) that reached 1.5 billion impressions targeting Zohran Mamdani during the New York City mayoral election.
More: www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i...
#mamdani #zohranmamdani #nyc
More: www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i...
#mamdani #zohranmamdani #nyc