In her column advocating social media regulation, Sagarika Ghose starts by offering the usual homilies to free speech. And then this curious assertion follows: Twitter in India is almost completely dominated by ‘Right-wing nationalism’—those dubbed ‘Internet Hindus’ by Ghose herself. Like much of the pristinely data-free discourse in India, Ghose’s argument is demonstrably false. Here’s just one datum: The Indian Twitterati with maximum followers include celebrities such as Sachin Tendulkar and Amitabh Bachchan as well as prominent journalists like Barkha Dutt and Rajdeep Sardesai. One may agree or disagree with these worthies but one would be hard pressed to argue that any of these are ‘right-wingers’ let alone hate-mongers. The only ‘right-wingers’ with large following on Twitter are prominent politicians such as Sushma Swaraj and Narendra Modi. And they have never been accused of hate speech—at least not on Twitter.