WASHINGTON: US right-wing influencers falsely linked New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to the militant Islamic State (IS) group, amplifying a fabricated statement that garnered millions of views on social media, researchers said on Thursday.
Mamdani, the first Muslim and South Asian elected to lead America’s largest city, secured a decisive victory this week in the face of fierce attacks on his policy proposals and religio
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