How Twitter got blindsided by India’s still-toxic caste system
- Written by Hari Bapuji, Associate professor, University of Melbourne
Twitter chief Jack Dorsey’s first visit to India had been going so well. He got to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi (an avid Tweeter with 44.5 million followers), “King of Bollywood” Shah Rukh Khan (36.8 million followers), and the Dalai Lama (18.8 million followers).
Then a single tweet had him being accused of hate mongering....
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