EPISODE · Nov 18, 2021 · 23 MIN
Social media's Latino misinformation problem
from Headlines From The Times · host Stephanie Valencia, Brian Contreras, Mario Diaz, Shani Hilton, Melissa Kaplan, Denise Guerra, Lauren Raab, Shannon Lin
Last month, former Facebook employee Frances Haugen revealed she had released thousands of documents that showed how the company knew yet did little to curb harmful content for its billions of users. Those documents also showed that Facebook’s parent company, Meta, knew disinformation on its platforms was particularly corrosive to Latino communities — yet the company did little to stop it. Today, we talk about the damage and what activists are doing to try to stop it.More reading:What Facebook knew about its Latino-aimed disinformation problem Misinformation online is bad in English. But it’s far worse in Spanish Facebook struggled with disinformation targeted at Latinos
What this episode covers
Meta, Google and other online giants know that disinformation plagues Latinos — so what will they do about it?
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Social media's Latino misinformation problem
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