"Throughout 2025, more than 17.1 million posts circulated across multiple platforms about Mamdani, a significant share of which amplified vicious disinformation and hate speech against him. Despite this onslaught, Mamdani—a Ugandan-born, Indian American Muslim—will become the city’s first Muslim and first South Asian American mayor.
Zohran Mamdani is the son of renowned academic Mahmood Mamdani and acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair, both of Indian origin. His father comes from a Gujarati Muslim background, while his mother is of Hindu descent, giving Mamdani a multicultural and interfaith heritage. His candidacy, defined by progressive policy commitments and steadfast advocacy for marginalized communities, has become a focal point for anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, and anti-South Asian animus in the United States and beyond.
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From his primary victory in June 2025, through the end of October 2025, Equality Labs manually monitored and analyzed 500 social media posts that explicitly targeted Zohran Mamdani. This monitoring was conducted by a team of social media monitoring experts on hate speech and dis/misinformation. In parallel, we conducted a large-scale, year-long analysis across major platforms to assess the broader scope and dynamics of the hate he has been receiving.
Our mixed-methods approach combined qualitative coding of harassment narratives with quantitative trend analysis to identify dominant frames, trace amplification networks, and distinguish organic discourse from coordinated disinformation and hate
speech. This dual lens allowed us to map the trajectory of attacks over time, evaluate platform enforcement gaps, and surface recommendations for community safety, rapid response, and policy accountability."
https://www.equalitylabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/11-6-25_Mamdani-REPORT.docx_compressed.pdf
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