There has been a “sharp spike” in anti-Muslim posts on Elon Musk’s X platform since the US and Israel began their joint war on Iran on 28 February, a social media monitor revealed on Monday.
The Washington, DC-based Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) said it tracked posts that explicitly dehumanised, excluded, and incited violence against Muslims from 1 January to 5 March.
On the day the war began, the volume of such posts surged from just under 2,000 per day to more than 6,000, the report said.
The group only looked at posts originating in the US that targeted US Muslims, CSOH told Middle East Eye.
The reach of the posts was the most concerning, the report said.