Out of nearly 36,000 Islamophobic posts about the NYC mayoral election published on X over the past five months, almost three-quarters were targeting Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, according to a new report released Monday.
The posts, authored by more than 17,000 unique accounts, often framed Mamdani as a terrorist or radical threat – and the frequency of those posts increased sharply in the days following Andrew Cuomo’s remark that Mamdani could be cheering if the city faced another 9/11, according to data from the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), a research think tank based in Washington, D.C.
“In a climate of deepening polarization and rising political violence, such rhetoric becomes even more dangerous as it could create real risks for Muslim Americans and those perceived as Muslim,” Raqib Naik, executive director of CSOH, told Documented.