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Disinformation in Latin America
Petro: a president with a loudspeaker
On 7 October this year militants from Hamas crossed the border between the Gaza Strip and southern Israel, unleashing a savage spree of killing and hostage-taking. Israel, taken off guard, responded by bombarding densely populated Gazan cities, as well as by cutting off water, power, and other essential supplies. An Israeli invasion of Gaza and a wider-ranging Middle East war both looked like serious possibilities. Across the world governments and foreign ministries found themselves having to take a position on the renewed conflict. For many this meant finding a way to condemn acts of terrorism by Hamas while appealing to Israel to observe international humanitarian law and avoid civilian casualties. The reaction of one country, Colombia, was noteworthy.
- 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