Looksmaxxing is more than just another online trend. For some young South Asian men, it can become a gateway to racialized beauty standards, self-loathing, and misogynistic narratives, creating pathways into Black Pill communities and the broader manosphere. More: www.csohate.org/2026/07/21/l...

How Looksmaxxing Pushes South Asian Men Toward Black Pill Ideology

As looksmaxxing has spread across mainstream social media, some online communities have normalized racial hierarchies of attractiveness, creating pathways into black pill communities and the broader m...

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Govts across Southeast Asia increasingly recognize need to strengthen online protections for children as digital harms continue to evolve. Join us on Aug 5 to explore the challenges, policy responses & what more needs to be done to better protect children online. www.csohate.org/event/rethin...

The ongoing Gen Z protests offer a glimpse into how live facial recognition and AI-powered surveillance are reshaping the policing of public dissent in India.

Why does hateful content keep thriving online? What to Fix Executive Director Victoire Rio explains how tying revenue to engagement turns outrage into a profitable business model, allowing actors to scale harmful content across markets even faster with generative AI.

Online hate has become a business model. Journalist Meriem Mahdhi explains how South Asia-based online networks have pushed racist and Islamophobic content targeting UK & European audiences, monetized Facebook pages through Meta's ad program, and even taught others how to replicate the model.

The myth of “Islamification” is being amplified and normalized by elected officials. Our recent report, Manufacturing the Muslim Threat, is cited in The Economist’s latest reporting on the growing anti-Muslim campaign in Texas and across the United States. More: www.csohate.org/2026/04/21/m...

Generative AI tools are transforming the scale of online harassment against Muslim women, making it easier, faster, and cheaper to produce fake sexualized images, deepfake videos, and other forms of abusive content and propaganda. Watch this report with insights from @evianeleidig.com #AI #GenAI

Tommy Robinson's recent tour of the United States illustrates how the contemporary international far right increasingly operates through transnational networks centred on narratives of free speech, civilisational decline, immigration and institutional distrust. www.csohate.org/2026/07/01/t...

#Hiring: We’re hiring a full-time Fact-Checker to join our US team and help lead a new rapid-response initiative countering misinformation, conspiracy theories, and other harmful narratives targeting vulnerable communities across social media.

Across Southeast Asia, Rohingya refugees remain the targets of dangerous hate campaigns in digital spaces. CSOH Southeast Asia Researcher @gustika.bsky.social explains how such campaigns operate and target vulnerable communities across the region. Watch her full remarks: youtu.be/JGHDGCvMZrw?...

How can we address the growing threat of hate speech and polarization? Ye Na Yoo, Political Affairs Officer at the UN Office on Genocide Prevention explains effective approaches to preventing harm and strengthening community resilience. Watch her full remarks: youtu.be/JGHDGCvMZrw?...

Our hate music report is out. The evidence is clear. Meta has seen it all. 5.9 million Instagram reels created using hate music, filled with dehumanization, calls for violence including threats of setting members of religious minority communities on fire. Meta knows. And Meta has done nothing.

Anti-Muslim bigotry and violence remain a pressing challenge in Canada, with devastating consequences for Muslim communities.

In India, music engineered to dehumanize and incite violence against Christian & Muslim minorities reaches hundreds of millions of listeners, delivered by social media platforms and music streaming services. More from our recent report in this exclusive by PBS Newshour www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

The Center for the Study of Organized Hate identified 523 incendiary songs on four sites that promoted violence against Muslims and Christians. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10936...

Report highlights big-tech platforms’ role in spreading Indian ‘hate music’ US-based non-profit The Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) has published a report titled ‘...

Report highlights big-tech platforms’ role in spreading Indian ‘hate music’

US-based non-profit The Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) has published a report titled ‘Profiting from Hate Music: The Role of YouTube, Meta, Spotify and Apple Music in Hosting and Monetizing India’s Hate Music Industry’. The report has been co-written by Kunal Purohit, the author of the book ‘H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars’, which was published in 2023 and documented the rapid growth of the genre in India.

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Next Tuesday, we are hosting an important conversation on how content farms in South Asia monetize Islamophobia, anti-migrant hate for export to UK, Europe & North America, the role of social media platforms, and pathways to accountability. www.csohate.org/event/south-...

#NewReport: Profiting from Hate Music report is the first comprehensive mapping of India's hate music industry and the role YouTube, Spotify, Meta, and Apple Music play in sustaining and funding it. Read the full report: www.csohate.org/2026/06/15/p...

Profiting from Hate Music

This report examines the scale of India's growing extremist music scene and the critical role that online platforms play in enabling its reach. From YouTube and Instagram to streaming giants like Spot...

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#UpcomingEvent: Next Thursday, on the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, we are hosting an online panel discussion on how to combat the growing threat of hate speech and polarization to our democracies and communities. Register here: www.csohate.org/event/respon...

CSOH Director of Research @evianeleidig.com spoke with DW News on the anti-immigrant violence unfolding following a brutal stabbing attack in Belfast.

Last month, two teenagers attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing three people. But the conditions for it were built long in advance, through years of anti-Muslim bigotry, dehumanization, and incitement. www.csohate.org/2026/06/08/s...

The San Diego Mosque Attack and the Dehumanization Behind Violence

The San Diego mosque attack shows how dehumanizing language creates the conditions for violence and why the hate crime label is not enough.

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We convened an imp conversation at Stanford University on rising anti–South Asian hate in the US. Our panel of experts explained the data behind this troubling trend and discussed actionable strategies for institutions, policymakers, communities, and social media platforms to respond effectively.

Our Director of Research, @evianeleidig.com spoke to @thenewarab.bsky.social about the factors that resulted in attack against the mosque in San Diego and the approaches needed to counter hate.

The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On May 18, two armed gunmen stormed a mosque in San Diego, killing two civilians and a security guard. The alleged killers left behind a manifesto that referenced Islamophobic conspiracy theories. So how do you stop hate when it is so widespread and intersectional?

Identity manipulation techniques built by hostile states have migrated into mainstream UK campaigns, operating in a regulatory void and at the heart of democratic competition. More: www.csohate.org/2026/05/26/i...

Together with Stop AAPI Hate and the Center for South Asia at Stanford, we're co-organizing an important in-person event on anti-South Asian hate at Stanford University next Tuesday (June 2nd). RSVP here: www.csohate.org/event/anti-s...

Our executive director spoke with @npr.org about the rise in anti Muslim bigotry.

NPR@npr.org · 3mo ago

Amin Abdullah, Nadir Awad and Mansour Kaziha distracted and delayed two gunmen at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Their actions saved the many children and staff inside the mosque and cost them their lives. n.pr/4uRJkwk

Our executive director spoke with @latimes.com about how elected officials online have used their platforms to promote dangerous narratives targeting Muslims and helped bolster coordinated campaigns by right-wing social media influencers propagating conspiracy theories.

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 3mo ago

It was a beacon of hope and faith in San Diego. Attack leaves a community seeking answers

When public figures normalize anti-Muslim conspiracy theories and dehumanizing rhetoric, they help create an environment where radicalisation and violence are more likely to take root. ~ Our Executive Director Raqib Naik told @deutschewelle.dw.com

People who oversaw security at the Islamic Center of San Diego said they had received increased threats after October 2023. The overall climate of hate only made things worse. More: www.npr.org/2026/05/20/n...

“When those in power use their position and platforms to normalize fear and hate toward a community, that hatred often manifests in violence,” CSOH Executive Director @raqibnaik.bsky.social told @prismreports.org

Prism@prismreports.org · 3mo ago

‘Hatred often manifests in violence’: After San Diego mosque shooting, Muslim & anti-hate groups condemn rampant Islamophobia, Sahar Fatima reports. “[The deadly attack] is the outcome of years of fearmongering, scapegoating & dehumanization targeting an entire religious community.”