False News Targeting Latinos Trails the Election - News Summed Up

False News Targeting Latinos Trails the Election


MIAMI — The posts proliferated on election night before anything remotely definitive was known about the results of the presidential race. “Robado,” they falsely repeated again and again in Spanish: President Trump was being robbed of a victory. Ahead of Election Day, false news in Spanish tried to turn Latinos against Black Lives Matter and tie Mr. Biden to socialism, tactics that experts said could depress the Hispanic vote. The gist of the falsehoods is that the election is “rigged” against Mr. Trump. He called the disinformation campaigns a “democratic emergency.” “The most vulnerable communities in the country are paying the highest price,” he said.


Source: International New York Times November 05, 2020 00:11 UTC



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