On November 10, a day after the Babri Masjid verdict was pronounced, the topic #SuspendMadhuKishwar started trending on Twitter in India in response to the inflammatory tweet posted by Madhu Kishwar, which has now been removed by Twitter, presumably after many users reported the tweet. The tweet read as follows:
This is not the first time Madhu Kishwar who brands herself as a human rights activist, has posted something inflammatory specially against the Muslim community, her tweets range from disseminating hatred against minorities, be it Muslims or even Christians, endorsing her extreme Hindutva views and spreading fake news about her adversaries through her “verified” Twitter handle. Hers is a twitter handle followed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself and hence she commands credibility amongst her 2.1 million followers on twitter.
Her tweets need no explanation or interpretation as they are outrightly radical and hateful on the face of it as well as endorsing Hindutva ideology
The link: https://twitter.com/madhukishwar/status/1193390077688176640
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The link: https://twitter.com/madhukishwar/status/1193220525549441024
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The link: https://twitter.com/madhukishwar/status/1193198443386114048
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The link: https://twitter.com/madhukishwar/status/1193196777698021377
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The link: https://twitter.com/madhukishwar/status/1193195809023479809
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The link: https://twitter.com/KashmiriPandit7/status/1189577297449209856
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An organisation called Fight Against Hate has even filed a police complaint against the above tweet of Madhu Kishwar. Madhu Kishwar has been pulled up multiple times for even posting fake newsabout her adversaries like Rana Ayyub, Rahul Gandhi and such others. Since she has a verified account and has 2.1 million followers, her tweets have a wide reach and are easily validated.
The question that twitter gets asked time and again is why accounts of people who keep spreading hate and incite users against a community on the platform are not suspended by Twitter and still have the “verified” account tag. Specially accounts that have been in the news and known to spread fake news. Twitter has been coming under the scanner time and again in recent times for not acting against such hate mongers and many believe that Twitter benefits from such hate factories that it has let breed on its platform and hence refrains from taking any harsh measures against them.
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