In the wake of Twitter defying an order to block twitter accounts of journalists and activists critical of the Indian government, government officials have begun promoting an Indian alternative to Twitter called Koo. Koo has been rapidly growing in India over the last month, and what's worrying about this is that Koo has no meaningful rules or infrastructure in place for content moderation, and perhaps as a result, extreme anti-Muslim hate speech has been proliferating on the app. This is definitely not a good development in a country characterized by tense and uneasy relations between a Hindu majority and a substantial Muslim minority, and it's not a great sign that the Indian government and broader swaths of India are beginning to use this app over Twitter.
link: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/koo-muslim-hate-india
Matt Jett #3
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