Spanish-language Covid disinformation is aimed at Latinos as the delta variant surges.
Now, they have moved to medical disinformation. A common theme in many posts is comparing international government responses to the pandemic to Nazi Germany, with groups claiming lockdowns as well as mask and vaccine mandates are the beginning of global tyranny. Many of the claims being made in Spanish are not much different from those in English and other languages throughout the world.
There is evidence people are mobilizing based on the false information they are seeing and reading. In a popular FaceBook page in Spanish, an influencer calls school board members in Florida who voted to mask school children “communist” and equated vaccine mandates to “tyranny against liberty.” The more dangerous Spanish-language information about masks and vaccines continues to be in closed messaging apps, like What’sApp and Telegram.
in Spanish against Democrats was raging on social media and WhatsApp groups during the 2020 campaign, said she thought there would be a decrease in disinformation after the elections,"but it has been quite the opposite, as the same people seem to be targeting vaccines." that teamed up with Media Matters to launch a"Latino Anti-Disinformation Lab," partnering with the group Media Matters, which monitors disinformation. Voto Latino focuses on creating interventions to stop it.that"almost 4 in 10 Latinx respondents report having seen material or information that makes them think the COVID-19 vaccines are not safe or effective."
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