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No more scrolling for Ramaswamy, X and Instagram uninstalled
Ramaswamy, who has been at the receiving end of race-based hate for months, noted that the hate was almost entirely virtual.
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Tue, 06, Jan 2026
- 03:22 EST
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Vivek Ramaswamy / Wikimedia commons
Indian-origin Republican Vivek Ramaswamy announced that he has sworn off all social media platforms and pledged to redirect the time saved toward engaging directly with people.
Ramaswamy, a prominent candidate in the upcoming Ohio gubernatorial race, has been at the receiving end of race-based hate from within his own party. His Indian identity has repeatedly been subjected to slander and online abuse over the past several months.
Explaining his decision, Ramaswamy wrote in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal that he had uninstalled X and Instagram from his phone. He added, however, that his social media presence would continue to be maintained by his team.
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“I’ll spend my newfound time listening to more voters in real-world Ohio, developing more policies to make our state affordable, and being more present with my family,” he wrote.
Beyond time lost to scrolling, Ramaswamy acknowledged that a key reason for his decision was his realization that the hate he received online was largely disconnected from his real-world interactions.
“I visited tens of thousands of voters across all of Ohio’s 88 counties — from inner cities to farms, union halls to factories, Republican rallies to one-on-one discussions with protesters — and I didn’t hear a single bigoted remark from an Ohio voter the entire year,” he wrote.
Ramaswamy also alleged that much of the hate directed at politicians is manufactured and amplified by bots and is often foreign in origin.
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