Islamophobia is reaching alarming levels in the US, with Muslim advocacy organizations increasingly targeted through coordinated political attacks. Even more troubling is the silence from much of the political establishment across party lines.

Despite numbering only a few thousand people, Japan’s Kurdish community has become the target of intense xenophobic hate campaigns driven by far-right politicians, sensationalist media coverage, and online mobilization. www.csohate.org/2025/12/23/a... #kurdish #japan #tokyo #Kawaguchi

The New York Times features our research in its latest reporting on the surge in anti-Indian bigotry. This hate sits squarely within a broader pattern of racialized targeting of all immigrants and communities of color. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Online hate has real-world consequences. In 2024, race and ethnicity based hate incidents targeting Indians in the United States rose significantly. Hear Stephanie Chan of Stop AAPI Hate, break down the survey findings. Watch: youtu.be/AZcVU3KXnts?...

📣 CSOH is Hiring! We’re expanding our global research team and hiring three researchers across Europe/North America, Southeast Asia and South Asia to support our work on digital harms, extremism, and influence operations. Applications are now open. More details: www.csohate.org/work-with-us/

#NEW: Our latest report maps the rise of Hindu nationalist groups in Sri Lanka and documents the emerging patterns of hate, grassroots mobilization, and the growing alignment with cross-border Hindu nationalist networks. www.csohate.org/2025/12/07/c... #Srilanka #SivaSenai #RudraSena #RavanaSena

🚨 Online anti-Afghan hate surged dramatically after the D.C. shooting. New analysis from CSOH and Afghan American Foundation (AAF) shows a rapid escalation across social media platforms. MORE: www.csohate.org/2025/12/04/a...

CSOH Executive Director Raqib Naik spoke with Sky News about the growing disinformation campaigns and use of deepfakes targeting political opposition in the subcontinent, and how they are inflaming tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors, India and Pakistan. youtu.be/f6XGZfZcbTI?...

Age-progression filters and viral image-based trends are contributing to biometric datasets critical to fuel AI-enabled militarised surveillance and targeting systems, writes @hijakamran.bsky.social in this latest analysis piece for CSOH. READ: www.csohate.org/2025/12/01/s...

Important new column in New York Magazine on the growing wave of Islamophobia in the US, which cites our recent report and includes insights from our executive director, Raqib Naik.

On November 19 in Luxembourg, CSOH Director of Research and Outreach @evianeleidig.com delivered a keynote at Dialogue Day organized by Respect.lu. The talk focused on tradwives, manfluencers, and the ways gendered online subcultures shape pathways into algorithmic radicalization.

In the US and Canada, we are seeing an ethnic distanciation within South Asian communities at a moment when solidarity is most needed. Long-settled and multi-generation South Asians often blame newly arriving immigrants. This framing obscures the real issue. Racism targets all racialized bodies.

A fringe “cauliflower” meme used as a coded call for anti-Muslim violence and once limited to online extremist spaces is now showing up in India’s political mainstream. More: www.csohate.org/2025/11/21/i...

Last week in Brussels, CSOH’s Director of Research and Outreach, @evianeleidig.com, spoke at the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation, where she discussed the evolution of the Great Replacement theory through a gender lens and the growing mainstreaming of “Remigration.”

Anti South Asian slurs associated with targeted violence are on rise across online spaces. Hear Stephanie Chan Director of Data & Research at @stopaapihate.org, explain these trends in detail. Watch full remarks: youtu.be/AZcVU3KXnts?... #southasians #onlineharms #Racism

Tomorrow, our executive director Raqib Naik will speak alongside Azadeh Shahshahani of Project South at Harvard Kennedy School event on the expanding use of “counterterrorism” frameworks and how they enable political suppression of marginalized communities and social justice movements.

In South Asia, AI tools are accelerating political manipulation, deepening misinformation ecosystems, and fueling new forms of synthetic propaganda. Read: www.csohate.org/2025/11/14/a...

CNN features CSOH’s new research on online anti-Indian racism and xenophobia, and the ways far-right narratives are taking hold across the US, shaping both digital discourse and the lived experiences of South Asian communities. Read: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...

Earlier this month, CSOH joined 1,000+ civil society leaders from across the world in Bangkok for International Civil Society Week (ICSW), hosted by @civicusalliance.bsky.social and the Asia Democracy Network.

Highlights from the “Big Tech, Democracy, and Human Rights in South Asia” conference held this Wednesday at the UC Berkeley. We brought together journalists, digital rights advocates, and scholars to examine how social media platforms are reshaping democracy and human rights across South Asia.

The New York City mayoral elections revealed how quickly online dehumanizing, Islamophobic rhetoric can take hold and how dangerous it becomes in a country already grappling with polarization and rising political violence. Our research featured on @aljazeera.com

I'll also share some analysis @csohate.bsky.social did regarding Islamophobia in the NYC mayoral election as it appeared on X/Twitter. This provides some more context on the broader landscape these attacks on CAIR occurred in. www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i...

I wrote about the recent attacks on Indians in Ireland for the Center for the Study of Organized Hate, and the need for the political and media establishment to reckon with their role in creating an increasingly hostile atmosphere for immigrants www.csohate.org/2025/08/14/r...

How do "community" fact-checking tools operate in South Asia where misinformation is entangled with high levels of political polarization, religious & ethnic divisions, and a massive user base generating multilingual content? Read this new report by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate ⬇️

And as Mamdani's campaign continued, the Center for Study of Organized Hate tracked over 35,000 examples of xenophobic and anti-Muslim content on X from June to October 2025.

Islamophobia and the New York City Mayoral Election New report out by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate We analyzed the scale of hate on X targeting @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social throughout the election campaign ⤵️ www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i...

Fun times this morning at the College Freedom Forum! And by ‘fun’ I mean some good and scary (but not hopeless!) discussions about authoritarianism.

AI tools amplify anti-Muslim hate on Indian social media: think tank "That's only a microcosm of what's happening at a much larger scale across digital platforms in India," Raqib Hameed Naik, founder and executive director of CSOH, told Nikkei Asia. trib.al/W95l5ka

In Germany, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is weaponizing AI generated imagery to craft hyper-nationalist, anti-refugee, and Islamophobic aesthetics, turning social anxieties into imagined threats to the country. Read: www.csohate.org/2025/10/13/a...

When Kabul fell in 2021, tens of thousands of Afghans turned to the US for refuge. Many arrived with the expectation of safety & stability. Four years later, they find themselves navigating a different kind of threat: a growing wave of anti-Afghan sentiment. Read: www.csohate.org/2025/10/23/a...

Our latest data shows a disturbing escalation of online hate targeting Zohran Mamdani and Muslim New Yorkers on X (formerly Twitter). Between November 1 and 5, we recorded 7,449 Islamophobic and xenophobic posts, with a staggering 5,307 (71%) posted on just November 4 and 5.

Next Wednesday (November 12), the Big Tech, Democracy, and Human Rights in South Asia conference will take place at the University of California, Berkeley. Registration details: www.csohate.org/big-tech-dem... #SouthAsiaTechConf2025

What we witnessed around the New York City Mayoral elections reflects a broader and growing pattern of dehumanising rhetoric against Muslims that has taken deep root in American public life.

Our latest report uncovers a staggering campaign of Islamophobia and xenophobia on X (formerly Twitter) that reached 1.5 billion impressions targeting Zohran Mamdani during the New York City mayoral election. More: www.csohate.org/2025/11/03/i... #mamdani #zohranmamdani #nyc