The Misinformation Web

Latino USA

Futuro Media and PRX

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The 2024 presidential election has seen a rise in Spanish-language misinformation and in the content creators making a living by pushing out false content. For months, Futuro Investigates in collaboration with Latino USA, tracked how lies and conspiracies about the election and the candidates that originated in English soon found their way to Spanish-speaking audiences, amid the expanded monetization of tech platforms and the rise of technologies like AI. We meet face to face with social media influencers pushing out misinformation in Spanish, and with the experts combating it.

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0:00.0	Futuro
0:05.0	Futur investigates.
0:10.0	Futuro Investiga
0:16.0	Alexa, who will win the next American election?
0:20.0	The 2024 American election will not take place.
0:24.0	There will be no winner.
0:26.0	War Powers Resolution of 1973 in 18.
0:29.0	In August of 2023, a video was shared online.
0:33.6	And in that video, a white man wearing an army green trucker hat
0:38.9	asks Alexa, Amazon's AI voice assistant, about the 2024 election.
0:45.0	Alexa seemingly responds that the election is not happening.
0:51.0	It's a lie, of course.
0:53.0	Still soon after, infamous conspiracy theorist Alex Jones,
0:58.0	decided to share the video with the millions of people who visit his far right platform, Infow Wars every month.
1:05.0	So the buzz is out there that there won't be a 2024 election.
1:09.0	Now I'm not saying that's going to happen. I'm saying we're not in normal situation anymore.
1:15.7	Let's play the clip I just talked about with Alexa.
1:19.1	And just like that, the video takes off.
1:22.1	It soon appears on YouTube.
1:24.0	Alexa.
1:25.0	Who will win the next American?
1:27.0	T.
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