Disinformation on elections, migration is spreading in Spanish too
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have been courting Latinos this election season. Relatedly, perhaps, this voting bloc has emerged as a target for disinformation.
Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Marketplace senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams and Roberta Braga, founder and executive director of the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas, to learn more about Spanish-language disinformation in the 2024 campaign.
This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series “Decoding Democracy.” Watch the full episode here or on our YouTube channel.
More on everything we talked about
“Key facts about Hispanic eligible voters in 2024” from Pew Research
“Q4 2023 Snapshot: Elections and Voting Narratives in Latino Spaces Online” from the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas
“Despite policies, election misinformation persists on Spanish YouTube” from Media Matters
“First AI election renews battle against Spanish-language misinformation” from Axios
“IFCN fact-checking organizations on WhatsApp” from WhatsApp
“Latino voters are coveted by both major parties. They also are a target for election misinformation” from the Associated Press
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