(Mis)Managing Algorithms of Hate: The Nexus of Big Tech and the State in India

19/07/2022 9 min

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aishani Khurana can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/07/mismanaging-algorithms-of-hate-the-nexus-of-big-tech-and-the-state-in-india/. About the post: The authoritarian regimes, in compliance with big tech, set discursive boundaries for the minorities who not only suffer the brunt of online hate speech as victims in real life but also run the risk of being punished for dissent. The big tech social media platforms can be easily controlled by right-wing ideologies, thereby rendering minorities and civil society policed, trolled, disciplined, and terrorized on the digital platforms.

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