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Why Islamophobia spreads faster on WhatsApp © Provided by The Times of India Telegram is too small and Twitter, too open. Unfettered by constraints of reach and scrutiny, political WhatsApp groups are where Islamophobic discourse is being driven in India. In the first large-scale study of fear speech, going over 2 million messages in more than 5,000 Indian WhatsApp groups, computer scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found that one in three posts in these groups incites fear of Muslims. “We manually curated a dataset of 27,000 posts, out of which about 8,000 posts were fear speech,” the paper, to be presented at the Web Conference 2021, said. And these posts were directed at India’s Muslim community. “It’s a similar tactic used by all these groups. To be overtly Hindu,” lead author Dr Kiran Garimella from the MIT Institute of Data, Systems and Society told TOI.

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