Anti-South Asian ‘hate speech’ has exploded online in US, report finds

Hate speech against Indians, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis in the United States has risen sharply online, according to a report that traces the surge to US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and rhetoric, economic anxiety, and the South Asian community’s growing visibility in US life.The report, titled “The Rising Tide of Anti-South Asian Hate in the United States”, by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), published on Sunday, found that the monthly volume of hate towards South Asians in the US on the social media platform X rose 240 percent between January 2024 and June 2026, from 12,904 posts to 43,843.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 49/11 at 25: How the ‘War on Terror’ helped mainstream Europe’s far rightlist 2 of 4‘They told me to go back to my country’: Inside the UK’s wave of racismlist 3 of 4Meta lawsuits: Is social media facing a global legal reckoning?list 4 of 4Online anti-Muslim backlash collides with different reality in South Africaend of listResearchers identified more than 542,000 hateful posts on the platform between January 2025 and June 2026 alone towards people from South Asia living in the US, with five of the six highest-volu...