Meloni has been accused of xenophobia,[101][102][103] as well as Islamophobia.[104][105] In August 2022, she reposted a pixelized video on Twitter that shows a woman being raped by an asylum seeker. The victim of the violence decried the publication of the video and she declared she was recognised by the video posted.[106] After receiving backlash, Meloni defended herself by accusing other politicians of not having condemned the rape itself.[107][108] She has criticized Italy's approach towards illegal immigrants,[109] endorsing the Great Replacement, a white nationalist conspiracy theory.[110] Meloni is opposed to the reception of non-European migrants and multiculturalism.[111][112] She believes in a planned mass migration from Africa to Europe for the purpose of replacing and eliminating Italians.[113][114][115] Meloni has been criticized due to her statements on vaccines and COVID-19, such as not vaccinating her daughter,[116][117][118] and claiming the probability of someone aged 0–19 dying from COVID-19 to be the same as being struck by lightning.[119][120]