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Disinformation in Latin America
How to regulate social media
The developments covered in this report concerning fake news and misinformation clearly point to a potential dystopian Latin American future, where distortion and manipulation erode democratic values and debase public debate. Rather than seeking to understand and address real-world problems afflicting citizens such as inequality, poverty, the lack of employment opportunities, crime, and corruption, politicians and governments will focus on manipulating perceptions and spinning stories to create a favourable impression. In short, authoritarian leaders of both left and right will use disinformation to confuse and distract a pliable electorate and keep themselves in power.
- 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