Anti-Muslim messaging success amplifies itself through media coverage.

Evidence

Christopher Bail’s research explains why: anti-Muslim organizations’ negative representations of Islam and Muslims have been effective in shaping public opinion. The more anger and fear Islamophobes propagate, the more media coverage they receive. The more leaders of anti-Muslim organizations warning of a domestic Muslim invasion become regular guests on mainstream television, the more Americans fear Islam and the more Muslims suffer discrimination and racial violence. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 764

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Milgrom reputation/echo-chamber dynamics and to the general media amplification feedback loops studied in moral-panic literature. — connects to: Anti-Muslim propagandists specialize in campus outreach and coordinated media distribution.