No One Expects the Spanish Disinformation
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Jaime Longoria, an investigative researcher at First Draft, who monitors information disorder in Latino or Latinx communities in the United States and in Latin America. In the run-up to the 2020 U.S. election, there was an explosion of press stories about mis- and dis-information in Spanish-speaking communities. But this is hardly a new phenomenon. They talked with Jaime about the long-standing and ongoing information disorder in these communities, how it is or isn’t distinctive, why it tends to go under the radar in public conversation and what can be done about it.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.9 | So when you start messaging about communism and socialism, being a part of movements for |
| 0:40.2 | racial justice, being an integral part of the movements for racial justice in the United |
| 0:44.6 | States. |
| 0:45.6 | And you have people hearing this messaging and look out the window and there are a lot |
| 0:49.1 | of black people out marching, you know, that easily makes a jump for them, right? |
| 0:53.6 | They start talking about these movements for racial justice as a communist plot in disguise, |
| 0:59.2 | right? |
| 1:00.2 | There were a lot of misinformation agents in South Florida whose messaging really relied |
| 1:05.4 | on this timeline of protests and becoming election to really push a narrative that the |
| 1:12.8 | Democratic Party was actually planning a communist coup and that, you know, the action on |
| 1:18.8 | the streets was a reflection and a part of that plan and then they would make connections |
| 1:24.4 | to gun legislation and the defund or abolished police movements. |
| 1:29.8 | This whole thing to them seemed as if come November a communist government would reign |
| 1:36.4 | over the United States. |
| 1:38.6 | I'm Quinted Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast, December 17, 2020. |
| 1:46.4 | This week on our Arrouders of Truth series on disinformation, Elan Dweck and I spoke |
| 1:51.0 | with Jaime Lungoria, an investigative researcher at first draft where he monitors information |
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