Social media companies spend relatively little time monitoring non-English content, making U.S. Latinos especially vulnerable to foreign-sourced disinformation.
Republicans didn’t quite achieve the ‘red wave’ result they were hoping for nationally in Tuesday’s midterms, currently leading over the Democrats by a. 10.11.2022, Sputnik International
and over again. these negatives, in spanish language media. it was targeting people where they were and what they were watching. it s so interesting to me, victoria, to allude to something you said earlier. people are already beginning to write the narrative of the latino vote. the predicate-ing it on movement that they re seeing in taxes, predicating it on movement that they will see out of florida. and they re gonna want to call it a realignment. i would argue that in order to prove there is an actual realignment, you need to see it in nevada, you need to see it in arizona, or about a month out from midterms. what it is you re gonna be watching for? here, it s gonna be about can we fight off apathy with these latino voters. i think one of the biggest off tickles for the midterm election is apathy. i think the 2018 midterm made us forget that the trend is
tend to see those inverse. mexican american support since much higher. in florida, you have that unique story which is, again, why republicans do better here with hispanic voters than they do in the other states. i want to ask, yo how big of a factor is misinformation? the orlando s said in the reporting that a spanish language radio shows have gotten away with calling democrats, quote, pedophiles and murderers who are in bed with the communist party of china. it sounds ridiculous. people are believing it. how big of an influence is this red scare rhetoric? aaron, it sounds ridiculous, it is ridiculous. the spanish language media in florida, especially south florida that is tuesday afternoon. that is an unrelenting assault of misinformation and disinformation that s happening. again, unfortunately, one of the things we ve seen, the democrats have made political