A study by South Asian feminist organization Equality Labs reported on Tuesday that more than 4.7 million Islamophobic social media posts targeted the Muslim community in the United States during 2025.The organization reported that a slab of 4.7 million posts had generated 34.8 million engagements. These engagements include shares, comments, and saves.
Texas led the disinformation targeting Muslims with approximately 279,000 posts, followed by Florida with 150,000 posts and California with 117,000 posts. The organization studied the sample set of 1,500 posts, identifying the Muslim invasion theory, Sharia law, and calls to deport Muslims among the 10 most prevalent themes, the scroll reported.
The study found that Islamophobic content was becoming increasingly prevalent among officials of US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party. Such content frequently overlapped with anti-immigrant rhetoric, including calls to pause visas, denaturalize citizens, and deport people born outside the United States.
The study, as reported by the Scroll, observed that the civic engagements of Muslims had surged in being targeted, and the Muslim candidates, voters, and elected officials from the Republican and Democratic parties were harassed.
The organization, in order to tackle the situation, urged for defining all faith-based electoral disinformation, augmenting disclosure requirements for funders, and targeting and artificial intelligence-generated
To tackle the problem, Equality Labs recommended defining all faith-based electoral disinformation as a civil rights and voter access issue, expanding disclosure requirements for funders, targeting and addressing the use of AI-generated content in political advertisements and influencer-style messaging, dismantling the funding streams and networks that sustain Islamophobic campaigns, and disrupting the funding and networks behind Islamophobic campaigns.
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