LATINO ANTI-DISINFORMATION

What ‘fairness’ in news stories looks like, low-cost training on investigative techniques, and what a viral story says about media bias

According to California health officials and advocates, disinformation surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines on social media and some news outlets is a major cause of vaccine hesitancy and fear.

In July 2020, Global Americans—in partnership with the Global Engagement Center at the United States Department of State, and in collaboration with four regional partner organizations: Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo de América Latina ((CADAL) Buenos Aires, Argentina), Medianálisis (Caracas, Venezuela), Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico), and Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia)—launched a research project dedicated to understanding the dissemination of disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda in Latin America and the Caribbean. Over the past 15 months, these four teams engaged in extensive qualitative and quantitative research and social media monitoring in order to

Resources will help build an online toolkit for Latino voters and highlight major Democratic accomplishments   This week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is launching Juntos Together, a first of its kind digital information hub containing dozens of English and Spanish language assets, sample social media posts, and digital tools to give Americans the necessary materials to […]

/PRNewswire/ -- In response to the threat of mis- and disinformation on democracy and public health, Voto Latino, the largest Latinx voter registration...

A Latino advocacy group and media watchdog will invest $22 million in an effort to battle disinformation targeted at the Hispanic community.