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. “Reposts dramatically amplify the visibility of harmful content, allowing it to spread far beyond the original accounts that generated it.”
With reposts included, “the total mention volume of Islamophobic content rises to 279,417, representing an 11-fold amplification of the harmful original posts”.
The content examined by CSOH encompassed a wide swath that included everything from personal hate-fuelled opinions to calls for lawmakers to institute strict anti-Muslim policy, including a “Muslim Exclusion Act” and the deportation of all Muslims.
How can increase the amount when it was already almost the entire site, is it just less misogyny and anti-black and hispanic racism as those accounts are really focused on Muslims for now?
I’d assume they’re also counting Saudis, Bahrainis, etc condemning Iran as ‘anti-Muslim’ or ‘Islamophobic’.
There seems to be a theme of the month and the right wingers regurgitate whatever comes down from their top brass.