Algorithmic Hate

Grok's image generation (via Aurora) faced global backlash in early 2026 by creating non-consensual sexualized images-digitally "undressing" women, celebrities, and minors into bikinis or revealing outfits, and spreading harmful content on X, with probes from the EU, UK, France, Malaysia, and Australia. Responding to the Indian IT Ministry's notice, on January 11, X blocked over 3,500 posts, permanently deleted over 600 accounts, and assured compliance with Indian laws

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“I am Indian.” These were the last words of Anjel Chakma, an MBA student from Tripura and the son of a BSF head constable, as he was bullied with xenophobic slurs before being fatally stabbed by six youngsters in Dehradun. Tragically, this violence is not confined to our borders.

Vivek Saini, another MBA student, was brutally murdered at a gas station in Georgia, United States, in 2024. His family and community activists allege that the extreme brutality he was struck nearly 50 times with a hammer indicates a hate crime born of extreme intolerance.

These two tragedies one internal, one external are not isolated incidents. They are the grim outcomes of a low-cost, high-frequency digital campaign of hate. Social media platforms have become unregulated laboratories where vulnerable populations are bombarded with repetitive, divisive messaging. Whether it is the internal alienation of Northeast Indians or the global vilification of Indian immigrants, the mechanism is the same: algorithms that prioritize clicks over truth are radicalizing populations and threatening national security.

The strategy is to flood with "othering" content memes, distorted videos, half-truths ~ and a section of the population, virtually trained for violence, emerges. Except nonprofits like Signal, the social media industry is notorious for its focus on profits and sees monitoring as a burden. Its automated moderation systems may catch standard English profanity but often miss localized, coded slurs in regional languages. Compounding this failure is the blanket application of "End-to-End Encryption" (E2EE), which functions as a 'golden lock on toxicity.