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26 Nov, 9 tweets, 4 min read
Yati Narsinghanad disciple Suresh Rajput regularly posts hate speech videos targeting Muslims. @AltNews wrote to @Facebook following which few of his videos were taken down but the platform failed to terminate his profile. His videos gain lakhs and thousands of views.

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“We do progressive reviews and put restrictions on accounts when they violate. When the account meets the threshold to disable, we take final action,” was Facebook's response when questioned about its failure to deplatform Rajput.

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While Facebook did not deem Rajput's account meeting the "threshold" to be disabled, there are videos of him referring to Muslims as "pigs", inciting violence and promoting their economic boycott, and terming Muslim women who protested against CAA as "prostitutes".

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There are also videos where he has given Virat Kohli a "Muslim getup" and spewed hate against the Muslim community for Kohli's stance against bursting firecrackers on Diwali.

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Suresh Rajput and his associates have been in news before for posting inflammatory videos on YouTube as well and threatening to shoot Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.

5/9
 thewire.in/communalism/ra…
While Facebook failed to take down his profile, @YouTube terminated his channel "Hindu Sher boy" for violating its policy on hate speech. This was after Alt News wrote an elaborate email to YouTube.

6/9
A few days after the suspension, Rajput again started a new channel with the same name "Hindu Sher boy". One of his associates Prabhu Nishad, who also posts hate speech videos, shared a video of Rajput asking his followers to follow his new channel.

7/9
Alt News informed YouTube about his new channel and it was also taken down. "We terminated it for circumvention of our policies as per our Terms of Service,” responded YouTube.

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While YouTube took reasonable action, Facebook failed to deplatform Rajput, a hate speech propagator who occupies a prominent space on the platform. Facebook's refusal to suspend him is evidence of its unwillingness to tackle hate speech in India.

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