One group found a twentyfold increase in anti-Muslim posts after the primary and says the surge has not subsided.

Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan generated a wave of Islamophobia across social media. That’s the conclusion of a recent Washington Post study and several similar recent investigations, which find that El-Sayed’s religion became the main target of right-wing critics after he won the state’s Democratic Senate nomination and positioned himself to take on the GOP nominee, Mike Rogers…

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