Anti-Muslim hate speech targeting Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed surged twentyfold following his Aug. 4 win in the Democratic primary, according to a new study.
Findings of the Washington, DC-based Center for the Study of Organized Hate, as shared with Anadolu, found that posts naming El-Sayed along with anti-Muslim bigotry averaged 155 a day between June 1 and Aug. 3, then rose to 3,099 a day on Aug. 4-10, soaring 1,895%.
Those seven days accounted for 56.7% of all 38,280 Islamophobic posts targeting El-Sayed tracked since Jan. 1, with volume peaking on Aug. 5 at 6,923 posts in a single day.
Separately, the center tracked 409,640 posts promoting anti-Muslim bigotry on US social media company X in the country between June 1 and Aug. 10, with the platform’s highest single-day total of the summer also seen on Aug. 5 with 11,883 posts.