Publications

The recent influx of global users to the social media platform Bluesky has created significant opportunities for meaningful discourse, as users increasingly migrate from platforms like X, Threads, Instagram, and Facebook in search of alternative spaces for community building. Our report “Caste, Race, and Religious Hate Speech On Bluesky” focuses on the proliferation of hate speech on Bluesky against South Asians. Our research shows that South Asian users are actively exploring innovative ways to leverage Bluesky’s tools to create safer spaces on the platform. Although Bluesky’s decentralized, non-algorithmic design allows users greater control over the content they see, significant gaps remain. Our findings indicate that Islamophobic, casteist, and racist hate speech continues to circulate on the platform. As more South Asian users join Bluesky, the platform—having expressed a commitment to user safety—must proactively confront the rise of inflammatory casteist, racial, and religious hate speech.

Find our full report including recommendations for Bluesky to make the platform a more inclusive and safe space for South Asians, specially caste-oppressed and religious minorities.

Since publishing our first anti-doxing guide in 2017, the practice of doxing has evolved dramatically. Our team wanted to revisit this topic and give our communities the opportunity to take digital security into their own hands. We hope that this guide will encourage and prepare you to build a comprehensive safety plan within your communities.

We have created this anti-doxing guide to support activists around the world who may be targeted for resisting white supremacy, Islamophobia, casteism, antisemitism, anti-LGBTQ+ harassment, or any form of authoritarianism.

This report came out of a community driven survey conducted in 2016 and has now emerged as a crucial document that both presents the first evidence of caste-based discrimination in the U.S. and helps to map the internal hegemonies within our communities. It also provides insight into how the South Asian community balances the experiences of living under white supremacy while replicating caste, anti-Dalitness, and anti-Blackness.

We hope this report opens new opportunities for dialogue, accountability, and most of all justice in all of our communities.

Our 2019 report presents a crucial analysis and summary of one of the gravest forms of influence circulating the Facebook India platform—hate speech and disinformation. The particularly alarming pitfalls and failures of Facebook India’s content moderation policies and their implementation are examined; and, numerous, disturbing examples of real hate speech and calls to violence against minorities are presented.

This publication provides a road map for stakeholders from multiple vantage points to help counteract an imminent human rights disaster.