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Instagram suspends Hyderabad creator amid doxxing, casteist abuse
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The Siasat Daily
Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based Telugu content creator Ajay Radha Kumar lost access to his Instagram account on Wednesday, August 5, a day after a Hindutva digital creator published his phone number online and triggered a wave of casteist and communal abuse against him.
Instagram cited a breach of its intellectual property policy for the suspension, a reason Ajay has disputed, given the timing.
The 23-year-old, who has built a following of over 1 lakh on feminist and Ambedkarite commentary, has spent the past week at the centre of an online harassment campaign by creator TD Rakesh Sharma.
Sharma then posted Ajay’s phone number on the public platform.
Sharma, meanwhile, has kept up the campaign, posting a total of 11 videos targeting Ajay, including ones probing his caste background.