Vivek Ramaswamy quits social media, blaming ‘false impression’ of support
Ja'han Jones
Tue, January 6, 2026 at 5:26 PM EST
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Vivek Ramaswamy on Jan. 08, 2024 in Sioux City, IA.
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Vivek Ramaswamy quits social media, blaming ‘false impression’ of support
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Happy Tuesday! Here’s the Tech Drop, the past week’s top stories from the intersection of technology and politics.
Ramaswamy’s retreat
Current Ohio gubernatorial candidate (and failed Republican presidential candidate) Vivek Ramaswamy said this week he was going into social media exile, announcing his decision to ditch his personal social accounts on X and Instagram in an op-ed published Monday in The Wall Street Journal. The principle reason he cited for his departure is that “Modern social media is increasingly disconnected from the electorate. The messages you’re most likely to see are the most negative and bombastic.”
Ramaswamy, who built a name for himself by peddling bigoted rhetoric about liberals, has himself been a target for MAGA’s racist invective since December 2024, when he made comments critical of American workers and endorsed H1-B visas. Ramaswamy has spent the past few weeks in particular publicly decrying the anti-Indian racism he’s received from members of his own party.
In his op-ed, he appears to position racism among the evils that he experiences only online. “In 2025 I saw a spate of shocking racial slurs and worse on social media. Yet that same year I visited tens of thousands of voters across all of Ohio’s 88 counties,” he wrote, adding, “and I didn’t hear a single bigoted remark from an Ohio voter the entire year.”
Ramaswamy said his online presence is now being run wholly by his staffers.
You can read Ramaswamy’s op-ed here.
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overseers. If you on that MAGA shyt, you are an enemy of mine. no if ands or buts 
