{"id":7289,"date":"2022-10-06T10:37:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T08:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/06\/disinformation-in-spanish-is-prolific-on-facebook-twitter-and-youtube-despite-vows-to-act\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T10:37:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T08:37:35","slug":"disinformation-in-spanish-is-prolific-on-facebook-twitter-and-youtube-despite-vows-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/06\/disinformation-in-spanish-is-prolific-on-facebook-twitter-and-youtube-despite-vows-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Disinformation in Spanish is prolific on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube despite vows to act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platforms\u2019 failure to eradicate the false information amounts to aiding and abetting disenfranchisement, advocates say<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Last year, US lawmakers urged the CEOs of major tech companies including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to do more to combat disinformation spreading in Spanish, warning that inaccurate information on key issues such as vaccines and the presidential election was proliferating on their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is significant evidence that your Spanish-language moderation efforts are not keeping pace, with widespread accounts of viral content promoting human smuggling, vaccine hoaxes, and election misinformation,\u201d the lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.padilla.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/padilla-colleagues-urge-tech-ceos-to-combat-spanish-language-disinformation\/\">wrote<\/a> in a July 2021 letter. \u201cCongress has a moral duty to ensure that all social media users have the same access to truthful and trustworthy content regardless of the language they speak at home or use to communicate online.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2022\/oct\/06\/disinformation-in-spanish-facebook-twitter-youtube\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a9d6d25fa111237ddeeabf4cc5800da3c71b72a4\/0_282_6720_4032\/master\/6720.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a14c79142106e57fc08b80f74d0e41d6\" title=\"Disinformation in Spanish is prolific on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube despite vows to act\" \/>Social media platforms\u2019 failure to eradicate the false information amounts to aiding and abetting disenfranchisement, advocates say<\/p>\n<p>Last year, US lawmakers urged the CEOs of major tech companies including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to do more to combat disinformation spreading in Spanish, warning that inaccurate information on key issues such as vaccines and the presidential election was proliferating on their platforms.<br \/>\n\u201cThere is significant evidence that your Spanish-language moderation efforts are not keeping pace, with widespread accounts of viral content promoting human smuggling, vaccine hoaxes, and election misinformation,\u201d the lawmakers wrote in a July 2021 letter. \u201cCongress has a moral duty to ensure that all social media users have the same access to truthful and trustworthy content regardless of the language they speak at home or use to communicate online.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platforms\u2019 failure to eradicate the false information amounts to aiding and abetting disenfranchisement, advocates say Last year, US lawmakers urged the CEOs of major tech companies including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to do more to combat disinformation spreading in Spanish, warning that inaccurate information on key issues such as vaccines and the presidential &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/06\/disinformation-in-spanish-is-prolific-on-facebook-twitter-and-youtube-despite-vows-to-act\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disinformation in Spanish 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