'We asked them, who’s in charge of ensuring the integrity of content moderation in Spanish? They would not tell us the answer to that, or even if that person existed,' the co-chief executive of media advocacy group Free Press told _B_Contreras_ & maloym
Much of the fake news was spreading on social media, via YouTube, Twitter and, pivotally, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. All three are owned by the same umbrella company, which recently“The same sort of themes that were showing up in English were also showing up in Spanish,” González recalled.
“We were consistently met much the same way they meet other groups that are working on disinformation or hate speech,” she added: “With a bunch of empty promises and a lack of detail.” But inside Facebook, employees had been raising red flags of their own for months, calling for a more robust corporate response to the misinformation campaigns their company was facilitating.
The next month, another internal report warned that Facebook had “no policies to protect against targeted suppression ,” alluding to concerns that Latino voters would be dissuaded from showing up to vote if they were told, falsely, that immigration authorities would be present at polling sites.
The company also said that four of its 10 fact-checking partners in the U.S. handle Spanish-language content.
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