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'Sharp spike' in anti-Muslim posts on X since US-Israel war on Iran, study shows (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 11 hours ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. Musk never wanted to do anything about the bots, he just wanted to make sure they were parroting his chosen propaganda. He really should lose his shirt over the fact that he purposefully devalued Twitter before purchase by screaming about the bot problem he never intended to fix, but claimed he did.

[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

Kinda makes you wonder if they were his bots tbh.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

the volume of such posts surged from just under 2,000 per day to more than 6,000

I refuse to believe Twitter only had 2,000 anti-islamic posts a day.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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?

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago

I'd assume they're also counting Saudis, Bahrainis, etc condemning Iran as 'anti-Muslim' or 'Islamophobic'.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

There seems to be a theme of the month and the right wingers regurgitate whatever comes down from their top brass.