A single cropped photograph of a university food queue in Ireland sparked a wave of online hate targeting Indian students — and it was all built on assumption, not fact.
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The Irish Times reported that the University of Galway's food pantry distributed nearly €500,000 worth of food last year, with hundreds of students turned away weekly. Ireland's cost-of-living crisis is hitting everyone hard — rents are soaring, groceries are expensive, and students across the board are struggling.
But social media didn't care about the full picture. A user on X zoomed into one section of the photo, claimed "90%+" of the queue were Indian nationals, and asked — is this a scam? Within hours, comments like "deport Indians" and "they loot every service" flooded the thread. No data. No proof. Just a cropped image and a community put on trial.