The growing attention to recent extreme weather events and news on government policies around climate change is giving rise to more Spanish-language disinformation and misinformation that Latinos see on social media, researchers say.
of labeling state affiliated news sources, the videos remained unlabeled, possibly missed by monitors, according to the report.
Instead, she found there was a network of Spanish-language social media accounts, mostly based in Spain and Latin America, that engage with a broader right-wing agenda and heavily relies on translated right-wing content originally generated in the U.S. in English. Among that content is climate change denialism. This was particularly true onwhere López G. identified more than 2,000 disparate Twitter accounts that reflected this pattern in her study.
Strong ties between Spanish-speaking immigrant communities in the U.S. and their countries of origin help explain why climate misinformation posted by social media accounts in Spain and Latin America finds its way into the feeds of Latinos in the U.S., López G. said. Sometimes U.S. Latinos get clips from their relatives via WhatsApp or other platforms.to stay informed than other groups.
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