“When they receive wrong information, then in many ways that can lead them to disengage from policy and politics … so the way I see it, it’s kind of a form of voter suppression.” LatinoVoicesWTTW
, 70% of Latinos use social media as a primary source of political and election news, where fact-checking in Spanish is often sparse. Young Latinos are more than twice as likely as the general population to use messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram, which also lack fact-checking.
“As we’ve known there’s been very little or very lax oversight over those platforms. And so Latinos become very susceptible in that way,” Dominguez said. “When they receive wrong information, then in many ways that can lead them to disengage from policy and politics … so the way I see it, it’s kind of a form of voter suppression.”
“I would say our community has seen a lot of fraud in the immigration communication that’s out there. There are a lot of predatory entities, even attorneys making false claims. And I think that has really serious repercussions for immigration status,” Trejo said.
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