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EPISODE · Nov 18, 2021 · 23 MIN

Social media's Latino misinformation problem

from Headlines From The Times · host Stephanie Valencia, Brian Contreras, Denise Guerra, Lauren Raab, Mario Diaz, Melissa Kaplan, Shannon Lin, Shani Hilton

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

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Meta, Google and other online giants know that disinformation plagues Latinos — so what will they do about it?

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