Several major global media outlets have called out Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his hate speech-laden public address at Rajasthan’s Banswara on Sunday. Speaking at a pre-poll rally in the…
T Raja Singh calls for violent action against ‘Love Jihad’ and ‘Land Jihad’ in Solapur, booked for hate speech
BJP leader Raja Naval Singh Lodh ‘Tiger’ alias T Raja Singh has been booked by Maharashtra Police for delivering a hate speech in Solapur on January 6 where he addressed…
Hate Speech: At Hyderabad Ram Navami rally, T Raja Singh ups the ante against Muslims, calls for Hindu Rashtra
Taking part in the Ram Navami Shobha Yatra in Hyderabad on March 30, suspended BJP MLA T Raja Singh delivered yet another communally charged speech rife with open calls for…
Defying bail terms, Yati Narsinghanand continues to deliver hate speech. When will law catch up with him?
On April 3, 2022, just about two months after Yati Narsinghanand got bail in the Haridwar Dharam Sansad hate speech case on the condition that he would not deliver provocative…
Alt News Policy on Hate Speech
The rationale behind our policy After five years of extensive reportage of misinformation, Alt News launched UnHate in 2022. We believe that there is a pressing need for fixing accountability…
From Dharm Sansad to hate speech PIL: The curious case of Ashwini Upadhyay
Last week, as advocate and BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay stood in the Supreme Court arguing for his own petition on hate speech, he must have remembered that not-so-distant afternoon at…
Alt News Impact: Facebook and YouTube ban accounts posting hate speech
On December 23, 2021, Harish Ramkali, a member of the Bajrang Dal in Haryana, posted on Facebook that any school that dresses its students as Santa Claus without prior permission…
Facebook fails to terminate hate speech propagator Suresh Rajput, YouTube suspends his channel
On November 9, Yati Narsinghanad disciple Suresh Rajput uploaded a video on Facebook about AIMIM chief Asaddudin Owaisi, where he referred to Muslims as “pigs” and termed the violence against…
Video of Zaid Hamid’s hate speech is from 2013, not after Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan
A video of Pakistani commentator Zaid Hamid’s remarks during an ARY News broadcast has surfaced on social media after the Taliban took over Afghanistan. He can be heard saying, “Danish,…
The link between misinformation and radicalisation: Revisiting a Delhi riots hate speech video
The peaceful protests against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 in the national capital turned violent on February 23. Riots between Hindu and Muslim communities prevailed for a week in…