This article cites two X posts and makes vague assertions that “The claim caused a stir online, with some X users condemning Mamdani.” How much of a stir, how many users, and how many of them were criticizing Mamdani for the topic at hand is unclear.

I doubt many people were taken in (though I’m not surprised to see a west virginia lawmaker involved, state legislators are truly the dregs of our society), and I think Newsweek mostly made this up.