[13] He has been featured and quoted in various news outlets, including The Washington Post,[14] The Wall Street Journal,[15] The Guardian,[16] The Intercept,[17] American Kahani,[18] BBC,[19] Daily Express UK,[20] Tech Crunch,[21] Forbes,[22] Voice of America,[23] Vox,[24] Wired,[25] PBS,[26] NPR,[27] LA Times,[28][29] Al Jazeera,[30] Reuters,[31] Rolling Stone[32] and The Chenab Times.
He then attended Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and University of Bolton,[33] UK for Masters in Public Administration and International Multimedia Journalism, respectively.
[37] In January 2024, the Indian government geo-blocked the X (formerly Twitter) handle of Hindutva Watch, followed by the blocking of its website along with India Hate Lab.
[38] In April 2024, Naik petitioned the Delhi High Court to challenge the illegal, arbitrary, and disproportionate blocking of Hindutva Watch’s X account and both websites.
[39] In September 2024, X Corp, for the first time in India, filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court in support of Naik, calling the Indian government’s blocking order a “disproportionate and unreasonable restriction.”[40] Raqib won the Aminah Assilmi Award in Media Excellence in 2021[2] and has been shortlisted for the Thomson Foundation Award.