It's impossible to measure the exact amount of disinformation that's currently flooding the social media feeds of Latinx people in Florida, but experts describe it as an onslaught.

Messages with false claims about Joe Biden are flooding, Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, and even Spanish-language newspapers and radio stations.

We've been monitoring them quite closely over the last couple of months.

This is Eduardo Gamara, a professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University.

Eduardo and his team have been tracking the flow of disinformation into Florida's Hispanic communities.

They want to know how this information is spread and, in turn, how it might affect the vote.

There's one clip in particular that Eduardo keeps thinking about.

That's a clip from Actualidad Radio, a popular station in the Miami area. It's the third most popular Spanish language station behind Univision and the top Spanish music station.

Eduardo says the woman speaking is a regular on the Augustino Costa show,

a Spanish language talk radio program.

Basically, she argues that the Black Lives Matter movement is inspired by black magic

where people are taking over houses, burning houses, and harming people.

And with a specific warning saying, if you vote for Joe Biden, this is exactly what's going to happen to you.

And the recording sort of ends with a woman saying,

don't blame us.

We warned you that this would happen if Democrats were allowed to win.

Because that's what they're voting.

For the anarchy, for the violations,

for those attacks.

And of course, the implicit message is that Black Lives Matter is dominated by the far-left Democrats and that Joe Biden, of course, is captured by the radical left.

This kind of targeted disinformation was also used in 2016 to manipulate voters and particularly to suppress turnout among black voters.

Recent investigation has shown that a firm working for the Trump campaign four years ago categorized 3.5 million black voters as deterrence. The implicit goal was to persuade

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