UnHate

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He was again suspended today after @AltNews reached out to @metaindia on April 19.

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Jeet Vashisth, Haryana district president of Bajrang Dal and Hindu Jagran Manch, was suspended by Facebook in January after @AltNews emailed @metaindia about hateful content shared on his profile.

He recently made a comeback with a new account which was also taken down.

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Jeet Vashisth reappeared on Facebook with a new page "TheJeetVashisth" that was used to post similar objectionable content targeting the Muslim community, including videos of mazars being demolished.

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Alt News wrote to @metaindia about the page engaging in hate speech. The page was taken down for violating Facebook's community standards. It had over 2.7 lakh followers.

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BJP Telangana MLA T Raja Singh was banned by Facebook in 2020 for violating its policy prohibiting violence and hate. He was marked as a "dangerous individual".

Recently, a 'fan page' operating in his name began posting similar content targeting minorities.

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In another video, he referred to those who don't vote for BJP in UP elections as "traitors" and appealed to Hindus to vote for the party in large numbers.

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While he has been removed from all three platforms and will likely be terminated each time that he reappears, Pathak has a plethora of fan pages. Social media companies need to scrutinise hate speech in non-English languages to disallow such content from flourishing.

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In 2020, 'Hindustani Bhau' aka Vikas Pathak was terminated from YouTube, Facebook and Instagram for posting a video that made an open call for violence.

He recently made a reappearance on all three platforms.

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Meta removed his new pages too after Alt News emailed the social media company. Pathak had 1.4 million followers on Instagram. He used to post similar content on both platforms - engaging in online gender-based violence and sharing posts targeting the Muslim community.

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Facebook unpublished his page earlier in February for violating the platform's community standard.

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General Secretary of Hindu Jagran Manch (HJM) Himachal Pradesh Kamal Gautam used Facebook to routinely share violent content targeting the Muslim minority community in India. @AltNews wrote to Facebook and his page was subsequently removed.

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The video highlighted in the previous tweet drew 2.8 lakh views before it was taken down.

He used to share multiple videos with similar captions that showed the demolition of Muslim shrines.

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