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Disinformation in Latin America
What’s in the toolbox?
A large number of techniques are being used, so it is useful to begin with some basic definitions. A research guide compiled by the Library of the University of Michigan in the US suggests there is a wide information ecosystem which is composed of both misinformation and disinformation. Misinformation is “false or inaccurate information that is mistakenly or inadvertently spread: the intent is not to deceive”. On the other hand, disinformation is false information that is deliberately created and spread “in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth”.
- Introduction
- What’s in the toolbox?
- Hate speech in the mix
- Coming next: social media and artificial intelligence
- The ubiquity of social media
- The Cambridge Analytica story
- Brazil’s false claims of electoral fraud
- The ‘office of hate’
- AMLO’s information wars by press conference
- Petro: a president with a loudspeaker
- Media made in Russia
- The Chinese presence
- Down the road of domestic polarisation
- An army of hipster influencers
- How to regulate social media
- Fake news is worryingly resilient