How reliance on Spanish-language social media predicts beliefs in false political narratives amongst Latinos
Marisa Abrajano, Marianna Garcia, Aaron Pope, Robert Vidigal, Joshua A Tucker, Jonathan Nagler, Noshir Contractor · 2024
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Marisa Abrajano and co-authors study misinformation among Latinos in a 2024 paper. False political stories spread widely on social media, and Spanish-language spaces get less fact-checking than English ones. The team asked whether reliance on Spanish-language social media predicts belief in such stories.
They fielded a large online survey around the 2022 midterm elections. The survey covered social media habits and belief in false narratives that circulated in both languages. Reliance on social media for news predicted belief in false stories. Latinos who relied on Spanish-language sources were more exposed. The study is the largest of its kind to date.
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| CREATOR | Marisa Abrajano, Marianna Garcia, Aaron Pope, Robert Vidigal, Joshua A Tucker, Jonathan Nagler, Noshir Contractor |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |