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🗓️ 12 June 2024
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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have been courting Latinos this election season. Relatedly, perhaps, this voting bloc has emerged as a target for disinformation. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Marketplace senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams and Roberta Braga, founder and executive director of the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas, to learn more about Spanish-language disinformation in the 2024 campaign.
This conversation is part of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series “Decoding Democracy.” Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel.
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0:41.8 | Latino voters in the Dell. I'm Lily Dramale. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have been courting Latinos this election season, |
1:06.4 | but this voting block has also emerged as a target for disinformation. |
1:11.2 | I recently spoke with Marketplace's senior Washington correspondent |
1:14.7 | Kimberly Adams about why. |
1:17.1 | Pugh research says that Spanish-speaking Latino voters are a growing voter base and the second fastest in fact growing base of any |
1:26.2 | major ethnic and racial group in the United States especially since the 2020 |
1:30.6 | election. Basically a lot of these states where there are large Latino populations are going to be on the line. |
1:36.4 | And so winning those voters over in November is super important to both parties. |
1:41.2 | So let's get specific about the false or meta-narratives popping up online in Spanish. |
1:47.0 | For details we spoke with Roberta Braga. |
1:49.0 | She's the founder and executive director of the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas. |
1:55.0 | This is a nonprofit research group that focuses on the impact of online |
1:59.8 | mis and disinformation on Latinos and Latinos. Two examples of what we see in English and Spanish and Latino spaces |
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