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Two Days After New Editor Takes Charge, Hindustan Times Pulls Down Popular 'Hate Tracker' Webpage

Two Days After New Editor Takes Charge, <em>Hindustan Times</em> Pulls Down Popular 'Hate Tracker' Webpage
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Hindustan Times pulled down its much-controversial yet popular 바카라˜Hate Tracker바카라™ campaign from its website on Wednesday. 
 The move comes two days after the newspaper바카라™s new editor-in-chief Sukumar Ranganathan took charge.
Hate tracker is said to have been one of the main reasons along with anti-troll campaign for the exit of editor-in-chief Bobby Ghosh.
HT is yet to officially confirm the pull down and the reason for it.
 
The hate tracker campaign -- a crowdsourced national database on crimes in the name of religion, caste and race since September 2015 -- was launched on July 28. 
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While launching the webpage, HT had said: 바카라œThe figures and descriptions of the list on this page are drawn from news stories in the English-language press and reports from civil society organizations. But these sources are not adequate on their own바카라Š.We바카라™re asking you, our reader, to send us pieces you spot in news, to share your own stories, and to give us more details of cases we바카라™ve already listed. To make our database comprehensive, and to understand the scope of hate, we need your help.바카라
 In no time, it had received a massive response from across the country. Many readers of the newspaper started putting the campaign logo as their Facebook and Twitter profile pictures. 
According to , on September 13, two days after Ghosh's resignation was announced, the HT content engagement editor, Geetika Rustagi, wrote to editorial heads in Delhi and Mumbai. "Rajesh's (Mahapatra) instruction: Kindly don't RT any hate tracker related tweets till further notice," she wrote in the mail.
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