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Disinformation in Latin America
An army of hipster influencers
Something remarkable happened in mid 2023. In a compilation of regional opinion polls carried out by Argentina-based think tank Directorio Legislativo, El Salvador’s authoritarian hipster president, Nayib Bukele, emerged as the most popular Latin American leader with a remarkable 91% approval rating, ahead of Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who had 64% approval, and Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with 56%.
- 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