India generates more than 55% anti-Muslim content on Twitter: study

• UK, US, India posted 86% of anti-Muslim content on Twitter.
• Only 14.83% of hate content was removed during 2017-2019.
• The politicians’ comments “can have a significant impact on the spread of Islamophobia”.

Oh the study A survey by the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) on Islamophobia revealed that most anti-Muslim content on Twitter originates from India.

ICV, an Australian-based Muslim organization representing 270,000 community members, found that Indian Twitter generates 55.12% of Islamophobic content.

The study found that politicians’ comments can have a “significant effect on the spread of Islamophobia”.

The three countries together accounted for 86 percent of the anti-Muslim remarks posted on the microblogging platform.

While the United Nations warned last year that Islamophobia had reached “epidemic proportions” and urged the international community to fight anti-Muslim hatred, platforms like Twitter have done little to remove such content. What is the work?

ICV found nearly 4 million anti-Muslim posts made during the period and only 14.83 percent of the hateful content was removed.

The study shows that during 2017-2019, content came mainly from the UK, US and India.

Social media users based in India blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for spreading and fueling discrimination and hatred. TRT World.

The study also found that former US President Donald Trump appeared in the most (third) anti-Muslim posts. Britain’s Islamophobia is not confined to social media, with ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s extraordinary comments comparing Muslim women wearing the niqab to “letterboxes”.