About 100 Muslim women in India had photos of them appear on a fake, racist “auction” app without their consent that encouraged users to bid on the women as if they were for sale.
, which envisions a state whose policies elevate the Hindu faith and culture in defiance of India’s secular constitution. Although tensions between India’s Hindus, who make up about 80 percent of the country’s 1.4 billion people, and Muslims, who make up 14 percent, go back hundreds of years, critics say they have intensified under Modi, who came to office in 2014.
It is unclear whether the two apps are linked, but the first one also put prominent Muslim women up for “auction” using photos lifted from their social media profiles. The apps were seen as intended to humiliate the women who appeared on them rather than facilitate any actual sale. Rehbar said she had reported on the first app as a journalist, only to find herself targeted by its successor.Bharatiya Janata Party
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