Anti-Hindu Disinformation is masked through the use of ethnic pejoratives, slurs and coded language. Here's an example of a meme associated with Hindus titled “Poo in the Loo” using the antisemitic Happy Merchant Meme. This shows how ethnic hates share effective memetic material
“Hinduphobic tropes — such as the portrayal of Hindus as fundamentally heretical evil, dirty, tyrannical, genocidal, irredeemable or disloyal— are prominent across the ideological spectrum and are being deployed by fringe web communities and state actors alike.”
White Supremacist & Islamist communities refer to Indians as “pajeets” on fringe web platforms (4chan, gab). This is rapidly growing on mainstream communities too, including
Using Word2Vec, a Natural Language Processing Algorithm, we find the word associations with “pajeet” are derogatory characterizations.
Our qualitative analysis suggests that pajeet is used in reference to Hindus & Indians interchangeably, with majority of derogatory characterizations targeted towards Hindus. Distinctly Hindu symbols are used in memes referencing pajeet, and not other Indian religions.
The Chabad Synagogue shooter in 2019, had referenced “pajeets” in the manifesto. It has also been used in white nationalist podcasts about murderous fantasies about Indians
Below are memes associated with pajeet found on Twitter, openly calling to violently kill Hindus. Extremists use memes to suggest a repeat of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Nazi style executions & co-opt the murder of George Floyd to suggest the same should be done to Hindus.
In addition to extremist groups and fringe web communities, state actors also deploy anti-Hindu tropes as part of information operations for geopolitical influence. We uncovered an influence operation by state sponsored Iranian trolls who pretended to be Pakistani users.
During the March 2017 Bhopal–Ujjain Passenger train bombing by ISIS, Iranian trolls, pretending to be Pakistani, attempted a disinformation campaign to suggest that the attack was done by “Hindu Extremists,” and attempted to get it trending.
We call on platforms to recognize the growing ethnic disinformation and the harmful impacts this can have on Hindu communities. This is essential for better detection.
With the largest data driven characterization to date at the time, The NCRI warned platforms, the international association of chiefs of police and federal agencies of the imminent insurgent threat of the Boogaloo-reported in the Guardian today.
NCRI topic networks from over 100 million comments, depict the Boogaloo as an apocalyptic militia which has been incredibly prescient. 4chan and other extremist communities fantasize of a mass, violent civil war with RWDs (right wing death squads) and ANTIFA as far back as 2019.
NCRI reported in June massive increases in Boogaloo activity during quarantine, with growth in sophistication - including real-world training for kidnapping exercises and flexible co-option of BLM narratives to drive accelerationist violence
The NCRI finds large increases in antisemitic disinformation now trending across social media sites, including Reddit and Twitter (below, NCRI seeking to fill data gap now).
In a report from last Dec, NCRI finds that antisemitic disinformation reliably emerges during episodes of critical vulnerability for democratic societies - from state actors, extremist and conspiracy communities - conjoining together to amplify the signal, like a fever spiking.
Antisemitic disinformation is a hallmark for QAnon information operations, serving a critical role for the mythology in fueling grievances about a notoriously Jewish deep state, complete with myths of drinking children's blood.
NCRI is finding evidence of planning behind the recent storming of the Capitol Building. Evidence includes this image, found on Facebook in groups with over 150k followers, the Trump Train in late Dec. Posts were also detected on Twitter and 8chan.
Analysis from NCRI shows simultaneous increases in related hashtags on Twitter suggesting wide adoption of the coded operation.
NCRI has previously warned about the militarization of QAnon in April of 2020 showing increases in their adoption of terms such QArmy and military paraphernalia, much of which was on display in DC. networkcontagion.us/reports/covid-…