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"An epidemic of Spanish-language right-wing disinformation that spiked around the 2020 election on social media platforms, and in some big-city AM radio stations, is revving up again..."

"... ahead of the fall midterms. Two years ago, before the 2020 presidential election, Spanish-language videos and news stories smeared Joe Biden as a communist. After the election, disinformation campaigns accused Black Lives Matter of spurring the Jan. 6 insurrection and bolstered the lie that Biden stole the election.... Conspiracy theories, easily debunked false narratives and outrageous lies spread quickly and take hold among Spanish-language users... [because] social media sites, including Facebook, do little fact-checking on foreign-language pages... [F]ake news videos often spread via large group chats among families and friends on WhatsApp, which is hugely popular among Latinos and is encrypted.... 'If your father sends you a video, you will trust your father. This is what makes us extraordinarily susceptible. We have very strong family ties.'... [W]e Latinos need to do our part. Don’t be shy about asking Abuela where she got that information she mentioned on WhatsApp...."

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stutefish म्हणाले...

I'm pretty sure fact-checking doesn't actually work. The only people who are rushing to facebook to "fact check" the memes their dad sends them are people who already hate their dad and need a countervailing opinion to maintain some semblance of sanity. Which I guess is a white thing?

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

WaPo is nothing but misinformation.

n.n म्हणाले...

WaPo publishes their concept of truth through disinformation.

Trollinator1000 म्हणाले...

Oh please; have you ever listened to Spanish language radio? Most of it is dem talking points disguised as 'news'.

ElPresidenteCastro म्हणाले...

The word salad of "Fake news" "disinformation" "insurection" "bad news...for democracy" makes me think that a bot actually wrote this.

I'll take Washington Post propaganda for $200.

RideSpaceMountain म्हणाले...

This is terrifying of course. They know implicitly what the end result is, and they must keep the truth from the ears of these impressionable minorities before - like feeding mogwai after midnight - they turn into a bunch of Ted Cruzes.

rcocean म्हणाले...

Everything in the Wapo article is "Fake news". Notice the hyperbolic language, smears, and vague, impercise, meaningless terms:

Disinformation
conspiracy theories
easily debunked
rightwing
smeared Joe Biden
outrageous lies
Jan. 6 insurrection
the lie that Biden stole the election.

No doubt some "big Donor" or Mysterious "BIllionaire" will now snap up these AM radios stations or send the word down to do things differently in November 2022. Assuming any of this happened. On 2nd thought, chances are pretty close to 100 percent that none of this happened the way the Leftwing DNC hack author portrays it.

South Park said "The 911 conspiracy is itself a Government conspiracy". This attack on rightwing AM stations pushing conspiracies is just a Leftwing conspiracy.

gilbar म्हणाले...

I'd like to hear one of these "Conspiracy theories, easily debunked false narratives and outrageous lies"? Are they things like?
The President paid Russian Hookers to pee on a bed

or are they things like?
the President "SAYS" he was 'wiretapped', but there were NO Wires involved

wendybar म्हणाले...

Right wing, means pro family? Wahhh...Poor progressives.

JAORE म्हणाले...

How do you say, "Russia, Russia, Russia" in Spanish?
How do you say Hunter's laptop is fake in Spanish.
How do you say there were good people in the white supremacist group in Spanish?
How do you say Trump sad to inject bleach in Spanish?
How do you say you can not get Covid if you are vaccinated in Spanish?
.....

There are so many.

Buckwheathikes म्हणाले...

Let's hope Abuela isn't getting her information from the Washington "Russia Collusion" Post or New York "Putin's Price Hike" Times.

These outlets deal in nothing BUT disinformation, designed to ensure that Democrats retain power in this country.

The President himself deals in disinformation. He blames Putin so much you'd think Putin is banging Dr. Jill.

That's what Hispanics are finding out.

wendybar म्हणाले...

What the left considers disinformation usually turns out to be true, and the bull shit that they pedal like Russian Collusion, IS the disinformation. THEY live in an alternate universe.

Mark म्हणाले...

To the Post and far left, but I repeat myself, everything that somebody on the right says is "disinformation."

Good thing we have the Post to progressive whitesplain to all those ignorant Latinos what the truth is.

Sebastian म्हणाले...

"Conspiracy theories, easily debunked false narratives and outrageous lies spread quickly and take hold among Spanish-language users"

Right! Just like among white progs! We should protect Hispanics from false narratives and outrageous lies about Russia collusion and Hunter's laptop and Kavanaugh cavorting and "police brutality" and "Putin's inflation."

Michael K म्हणाले...

Maybe Spanish speakers are dumb and that's why they voted Democrat all these years.

Jimmy म्हणाले...

Seems the lefts favorite propaganda outfit is beginning to realize that Hispanics are leaving the Dem party.
and whats with using Latino in the article?? I thought hipsters used latinx or something. Hard to keep up these days.

Jupiter म्हणाले...

Yeah. Don't be trusting your family. Trust Lizette. Jeff Bezos pays her good money to lie to you. But you can start listening to Spanish AM radio again soon, after Soros finishes buying the stations and replacing the staff.

Humperdink म्हणाले...

Isn't this rich coming from the WaPoo. Democracy dies in Spanish!

Gusty Winds म्हणाले...

Hmmm…Liz Alvarez. Liberal Journalist. And…an insulting racist.

The large majority of natural born and legal immigrant Hispanic voters in the United States are bilingual. Hispanic Americans hear Democrat liberal bullshit loud and clear in English. It doesn’t need translation. They can also read numbers at the gas station and the grocery store just like everyone else.

This claim is racist and insulting against her own people. She was born in Miami in 1964. Daughter of Cuban refugees. Miami Cubans are despised by the left. They know modern American liberals are communist / fascist, sympathetic to Castro. You don’t see them wearing Che Guevara t-shirts.

Also 46% of Hispanics in Florida have a positive view of DeSantis, and say inflation is their #1 concern. Although still 2-1, any siphoning of the intersectional Democrat alignment will cause lies and panic.

The election was stolen for Biden. Americans know it. Most are either afraid to call it out or are in support of the outcome of the fraud and the J6 committee hoping something / anything will make Trump go away. My bet is Liz Alvarez is in the latter category along with many of our intellectual elite.

donald म्हणाले...

Hispanic people don’t have the ability to reason and think for themselves says some hack bint from The New York Times.

Gusty Winds म्हणाले...

This sounds really familiar.

It's go the same "Russians bought $250k worth of false ads on Facebook, and interfered with our election" ring to it. You could hear the same BS on Morning Joe and Facelift Mika every day from 2016-2020.

Dave Begley म्हणाले...

For WaPo and the Dems, disinformation is anything they don't like and is outside the liberal narrative.

maximusK म्हणाले...

So is she saying brown people can't think for themselves?

Will Cate म्हणाले...

I work in the media brokerage business. There is nothing bipartisan about Latino Media Network (and they paid way too much for those stations, ~$60 million). It's being done completely to counter-program Spanish-language conservative radio content.

YoungHegelian म्हणाले...

In other words, it's okay to call Latinos stupid wetbacks as long as you have a lefty Latina do the calling.

That'll learn 'em to listen to those evil Republicans. We're just gonna call 'em stupid until they come around!

CJinPA म्हणाले...

"We're losing ground with Hispanic voters. We need to respond to their needs."

"Or, we can censor Hispanic dissidents."

"Or that. Sure."

pious agnostic म्हणाले...

Latinx

RMc म्हणाले...

"[W]e Latinos need to do our part."

That's Latinx, you horrible bigot...!

J Severs म्हणाले...

Don’t be shy about asking your journalist neighbor where she got that information she mentioned in her article.

Karen of Texas म्हणाले...

Bullshit. Spanish speakers aren't any more or less susceptible to all the mis- and disinformation floating around out there. You think the propaganda from the Left doesn't flow through social media outlets? The Left just sucks at capturing market share in the AM band, English or Spanish.

Note: My husband is Hispanic and yes, his huge family does communicate in group chats. But the lefties keep the righties in line and vice versa. Most of his family is conservative so the Left's messaging just doesn't play well in the group. Not really a right-wing disinformation issue that's capturing and "converting" them.

Static Ping म्हणाले...

It might be more persuasive if the piece was not from the Washington Post. HEAL THYSELF!

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"For WaPo and the Dems, disinformation is anything they don't like and is outside the liberal narrative."

It's a common malady, also infecting great swaths of Republicans and other Americans who identify as right wing.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"So is she saying brown people can't think for themselves?"

It would be more accurate to simply point out that most people can't think for themselves.

Drago म्हणाले...

It's hard to follow what this taco is writing about.

Misinforminimalism म्हणाले...

Sounds like somebody's scripting a narrative to cover for the fact that the Latino/x community is going GOP.

Your "fake news" is Trump's "stolen election." Same as Clinton's "Russian interference." Just STFU and try governing within the confines of the Constitution.

Misinforminimalism म्हणाले...

If this is an epidemic, we're up to the bullshit variant.

Clyde म्हणाले...

"Easily debunked false narratives and outrageous lies..." Methinks the lady doth project too much.

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

"You see, our plan for world domination has a lot of moving parts."

Jim at म्हणाले...

Want further proof the Ds are hemorrhaging Hispanic voters?

wendybar म्हणाले...

Robert Cook said : "It would be more accurate to simply point out that most people can't think for themselves."


And THAT attitude, my friends, is why Progressives are losing the American people. THAT is exactly how the Progressives in Congress think about Americans and they aren't being shy about it or hiding it anymore. (When I say Progressive...I am also including the REPUBLICAN Progressives to)

gilbar म्हणाले...

No doubt some "big Donor" or Mysterious "BIllionaire" will now snap up these AM radios stations

that's already happening
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article263382413.html
..concern over financial involvement in the deal of Lakestar Finance, an investment firm with ties to billionaire George Soros, a major donor to progressive causes.
But while Lakestar Finance was involved with the purchase, it was only to provide money
to Latino Media Network, a spokesperson for Soros said.
Soros was not personally involved in the transaction and will have no say in the way the station will run, or what is said on shows, because he has henchmen to do his bidding..according to the spokesperson

Jersey Fled म्हणाले...

Remember when Al Gore tried to take on conservative talk radio with his own network?

How did that work out.

The rule of Lemnity म्हणाले...

Abuelo Biden is healthy as a Mexican taco... or something.

Tank म्हणाले...

They always accuse others…

Greg The Class Traitor म्हणाले...

After the election, disinformation campaigns accused Black Lives Matter of spurring the Jan. 6 insurrection and bolstered the lie that Biden stole the election

No, the FBI, in the form of Ray Epps, spurred the "Jan 6 insurrection", and I'm sure that people who've watched stolen elections in South and Central American countries had no difficulty spotting the same pathologies here.

Conspiracy theories, easily debunked false narratives and outrageous lies spread quickly and take hold among Spanish-language users almost as quickly as the do among NYT and WaPo readers. Russian collusion hoax anyone?

Then there was the claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation", that it was "disinformation" to report that the Fauci and used the US Gov't to fund bat virus gain of function research in Wuhan, etc.

Writes Lizette Alvarez, in "Fake news speaks many languages, but it’s particularly fond of Spanish" (WaPo).
Apparently they're feeling really pissy that their lies aren't doing as well among Hispanics as they used to

narciso म्हणाले...

one of the stations they are taking over is radio mambi, the powerhouse of the cuban diaspora, another is wqba la cubanisima,

Mary Beth म्हणाले...

Jersey Fled said...

Remember when Al Gore tried to take on conservative talk radio with his own network?

How did that work out.

7/18/22, 4:48 PM


Better than David Hogg's pillow company. But only just.

TaeJohnDo म्हणाले...

Drago said...
It's hard to follow what this taco is writing about.

That's BREAKFAST taco, Señor Drago! Please don't try to distract us with demographic disinformation.

TaeJohnDo म्हणाले...

Drago said...
It's hard to follow what this taco is writing about.

That's BREAKFAST taco*, Señor Drago! Please don't try to distract us with demographic disinformation.

*(taco de desayuno)

n.n म्हणाले...

It's a pandemic, and people, a 9 going on 10 year-old girl, a female by Nature, designated mules of both sexes, people of collateral damage, are awaiting emigration reform from both sides of the bridge and throughout.

boatbuilder म्हणाले...

No mension of Univision?
All fake news is "far-right," and only "far-right" sources spread fake news.
More mierda from our friends in the MSM.

Greg The Class Traitor म्हणाले...

Robert Cook said...
It's a common malady, also infecting great swaths of Republicans and other Americans who identify as right wing.

Really Cookie?

What are the provably true statements pushed by the Left that the Right calls "disinformation"?

Kevin म्हणाले...

The Democrats have talking points.

The Republicans have disinformation.

I see what you did there.

Jupiter म्हणाले...

"right-wing disinformation"? Is there any other kind?

Greg The Class Traitor म्हणाले...

Robert Cook said...
It's a common malady, also infecting great swaths of Republicans and other Americans who identify as right wing.

Really Cookie?

What are the provably true statements pushed by the Left that the Right calls "disinformation"?

cubanbob म्हणाले...

narciso said...
one of the stations they are taking over is radio mambi, the powerhouse of the cuban diaspora, another is wqba la cubanisima,"

100% correct. Abuela can smell a communist from a mile away. The only Cubans that tend to vote Democrat are the grandchildren of the immigrants. Recent immigrants especially from Venezuela loath the left. Living under Socialism cures one from any romanticism for Left wing rule.

Buckwheathikes म्हणाले...

Every single commenter misspelled: Breakfast Taco.

Ya'll need some Taco Bell.

Achilles म्हणाले...

Robert Cook said...

"So is she saying brown people can't think for themselves?"

It would be more accurate to simply point out that most people can't think for themselves.

Cook of course is the lonely thinker out there in the wilderness of rubes.

It would actually be more accurate way to encapsulate Cook's theory as: "Everyone who doesn't think the same thing I do can't think for themselves."

People who support murderous ideologies and have zero self awareness think this way.

That's why millions of people die whenever they take power.

Michelle Dulak Thomson म्हणाले...

I have to say, I was more impressed by Perry Bacon, Jr.'s piece in the same WaPo, wherein he says that Biden is suffering b/c the media are . . . too nasty to him. No, really.

MadTownGuy म्हणाले...

"¡Ya basta!" has come back around to bite the (D) party. It was used on bumper stickers in Southern California to convince Hispanic people to stop voting (R) because the (D) Party cared so much for them. Now, even though perhaps not in so many words, they are saying once again, "Enough already!"

Narayanan म्हणाले...

does zxshe speak Hispanicx zherself/

Dude1394 म्हणाले...

Says the institution that only 16% or so of the country think they are NOT propagandists.

Narayanan म्हणाले...

This is what makes us extraordinarily susceptible. We have very strong family ties.'..
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is this code for Hispanitarians commit few abortions?

Narayanan म्हणाले...

hard tell from his avatar >>>> is Robert Cook peering forward to future or always to right?

Mike (MJB Wolf) म्हणाले...

LOL John Heinz Kerry can’t speak Spanish but he had some wild conspiracy theory about Diebold voting machines back in the day. With him and Hillary and Tank Abrams it seems being left of center makes you susceptible to #fakenews.