{"id":871,"date":"2021-03-16T19:33:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T18:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/facebook-must-tackle-spanish-language-disinformation-crisis-lawmakers-say\/"},"modified":"2021-03-16T19:33:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T18:33:58","slug":"facebook-must-tackle-spanish-language-disinformation-crisis-lawmakers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/facebook-must-tackle-spanish-language-disinformation-crisis-lawmakers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook must tackle &#8216;Spanish-language disinformation crisis&#8217;, lawmakers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign comes amid warnings that company removes Spanish misinformation less consistently than English material<\/p>\n<p>Members of Congress and activist groups have called on Facebook to address its \u201cSpanish-language disinformation crisis\u201d, urging the company to make major policy changes on the platforms it owns. <\/p>\n<p>In a new campaign launched on Tuesday, the Democratic representative Tony Cardenas of California and groups including Free Press Action, the Center for American Progress and the National Hispanic Media Coalition charge that Facebook is not doing enough to combat \u201crampant Spanish-language disinformation\u201d circulating on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram that is putting Latino communities at risk.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/16\/facebook-spanish-language-disinformation-congress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fe18f8c9ca1c6d508f6343dac883227cbcb2f26b\/0_256_4757_2854\/master\/4757.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4dc5791b01c51b3c557fd91b82ec4ab1\" title=\"Facebook must tackle 'Spanish-language disinformation crisis', lawmakers say\" \/>Campaign comes amid warnings that company removes Spanish misinformation less consistently than English material<br \/>\nMembers of Congress and activist groups have called on Facebook to address its \u201cSpanish-language disinformation crisis\u201d, urging the company to make major policy changes on the platforms it owns.<br \/>\nIn a new campaign launched on Tuesday, the Democratic representative Tony Cardenas of California and groups including Free Press Action, the Center for American Progress and the National Hispanic Media Coalition charge that Facebook is not doing enough to combat \u201crampant Spanish-language disinformation\u201d circulating on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram that is putting Latino communities at risk. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign comes amid warnings that company removes Spanish misinformation less consistently than English material Members of Congress and activist groups have called on Facebook to address its \u201cSpanish-language disinformation crisis\u201d, urging the company to make major policy changes on the platforms it owns. In a new campaign launched on Tuesday, the Democratic representative Tony Cardenas &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/16\/facebook-must-tackle-spanish-language-disinformation-crisis-lawmakers-say\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook must tackle &#8216;Spanish-language disinformation crisis&#8217;, lawmakers say<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}