A staggering 1.15 million social media posts on New York mayoral Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani are Islamophobic, a recent report says. These posts had a user reach of over 150 billion. Another 1.43 million posts mislabel him a communist, with a user reach of 292 billion. More than 17.1 million posts have been circulated about Mamdani across various social media platforms in 2025, the report further says.

The – titled ‘Tracing Online Hate Against Zohran Mamdani’ – was released by US-based anti-caste civil rights coalition Equality Labs, founded by Dalit activist and writer Thenmozhi Soundararajan.

The 89-page study aims to “expose the massive scale of hate, disinformation, and coordinated narrative attacks” targeting Mamdani.

Equality Labs manually monitored and analysed 500 posts

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