LONDON: British MP Bob Blackman has described research by an independent non-profit research organisation in the US, which found that anti-Indian rhetoric surged online last year, as “deeply concerning”.
Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), which specialises in tracking extremism and misinformation on social media, found that anti-Indian rhetoric on X tripled in 2025, with over 24,000 tweets viewed more than 300 million times. It found that every major H-1B policy announcement in the US triggered a spike in slurs and scapegoating of Indian immigrants.
