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Disinformation in Latin America
AMLO’s information wars by press conference
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), a left-wing populist, has also used what could be called disinformation techniques to keep the political opposition on the defensive. In his case the strategy is firmly anchored in the mañaneras - long weekday early morning press conferences which he uses to set the agenda and keep himself at the centre of the political debate. In theory at least the commitment to personally communicate government policy sits well with wider promises of openness and transparency. The president, with a down-to-earth style of speaking, has clearly remained well-connected with an important part of the electorate. Now approaching the final year in his six-year presidential term, AMLO continues to register 60%-plus approval ratings.
- 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