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's New York City mayoral election campaign was accompanied by , and his win on November 4 did not put an end to them.
Many posts on social media now focus on alleged resignations in response to Mamdani's victory, companies retracting their services, public figures' responses, and repeated fears around Mamdani being a Muslim.
DW Fact check takes a closer look at three claims.
: In this video shared on TikTok and viewed over 582,000 times, a woman states that the New York City Fire Department (NYFD) commissioner resigned in response to Zohran Mamdani's win.
Posts on Xand TikTokclaiming that thousands of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers had resigned following Mamdani's victory, or that trucking companies were suspending operations in the city, were falseor satire, but this one is true.
NYFD Commissioner Robert Tuckerhanded in his resignationone day after Mamdani's election. The timing was unusual as the commissioner typically waitsfor a successor to be named before resigning.
Tucker himself stated in an interview with the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Postthat he holds different opinions than the newly elected mayor, citing ideological misalignment.
"I also think I could have functioned well under him but, ideologically, our feelings are different. Therefore, I think he deserves the respect of appointing his own commissioner, someone who may be more aligned with him ideologically than I am."
: This post on X, with 4.4 million views at the time of writing,...
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