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‘Fraude informativo’ Expertos en la materia describieron los tres tipos de falsedades que combaten: la desinformación, cuando alguien inocentemente comparte información falsa sin saber que es inexacta; la información errónea, compartida por malos actores que saben que es falsa, y...

Experts in the field outlined the three types of falsehoods they combat: misinformation, when someone innocently shares false information without knowing it’s inaccurate; disinformation, shared by bad actors who know it’s fake, and mal-information, when facts are maliciously twisted out...

Como la inmensa minoría que son en Estados Unidos, los latinos llevan décadas siendo representados en Hollywood. De hecho, infrarrepresentados. Más de 60 millones, casi el 19% de la población, que queda relegada en las películas a papeles menores o,...

Brenda Victoria CastilloPresident and CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition"We need to educate people around us in our everyday lives about how to check sources and diversify the news we are taking in nearly every minute of the day....

These fact-checking organizations are not alone in fighting Spanish disinformation. The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) joined civil rights, anti-extremism and Latino organizations in launching a project to hold the social media platforms accountable in 2021. That initiative, called the Spanish Disinformation Coalition, emerged after Facebook failed...

This year will mark the third presidential election in a row in which voters have dealt with election misinformation. Many of us see it everywhere, whether in emails, on social media or in our mailboxes. Now, with the explosion of...

PHOENIX (AP) — As ranchera music filled the Phoenix recording studio at Radio Campesina, a station personality spoke in Spanish into the microphone. “Friends of Campesina, in these elections, truth and unity are more important than ever,” said morning show...

La desinformación en las ondas de radio también es particularmente difícil de rastrear y combatir en comparación con la que se difunde por texto, que es más tradicional, dijo Daiquiri Ryan Mercado, asesora legal estratégica y asesora de políticas de...

Most of the Spanish-language misinformation about immigration that Latinos see on social media or listen to on the radio seems to largely mirror the falsehoods spread by right-wing media outlets in English, according to two groups tracking misinformation in Spanish. Researchers monitoring...

A meses de la elección presidencial de 2024, organizaciones comunitarias, funcionarios públicos e investigadores anticipan una proliferación de información falsa en las plataformas sociales, y subrayan la necesidad de mayores medidas de verificación de datos, especialmente en los medios en...

CHICAGO (AP) — Leading up to the 2020 election, Facebook ads targeting Latino and Asian American voters described Joe Biden as a communist. A local station claimed a Black Lives Matter co-founder practiced witchcraft. Doctored images showed dogs urinating on Donald...

Corporate boardrooms remain a “sea of White” and Latino executives are falling behind at every level of corporate America, said Esther Aguilera, chief executive officer of the Latino Corporate Directors Association. “We are far behind and the numbers are dismal,”...