Racism and xenophobia against Indians surged on social media platform X after Sriram Krishnan, an technology expert of Indian origin was named United States President-elect Donald Trump’s advisor on artificial intelligence, according to a report by Washington DC-based think tank Center for the Study of Organized Hate released on Thursday.
The study analysed 128 posts targeting Indians on the platform between December 22 and January 3, which garnered 138.54 million views till January 3. It found that 36 posts surpassed a million views each, with 12 labeling Indians as a demographic threat to “white America”.