Spanish-language misinformation on Los Angeles immigration protests push a familiar theme
There was an increase in wrong or misleading posts, photographs and videos about Los Angeles protests on social media, with many participants between Latinians – most of them in Spanish – linking demonstrators to socialist or communist governments.
One publication on X with more than 600,000 views claims that protest groups in the United States have links to the “Venezuelan Mafia”, the Communist Party in Cuba, and the Maurina Party, the left -wing ruling party in Mexico. But the publication does not specify any groups and does not provide evidence of this.
The narration repeats similar lies distributed during the George Floyd 2020 and 2024 protests Protests of students supporting Palestinians At the University University.
Parts of Los Angeles and other cities across the country have witnessed protests against immigration raids, as President Donald Trump’s administration imposes a difficult immigration policy. Exciting scenes where fire was set in cars, including taxis in Waymo, and the demonstrators face law enforcement by throwing things on them, and it has occupied social media summaries.
While some Encourage the left left groups Even the glorification of violence in the protests, it seems that the attack attack, most of them in Spanish, is an attempt to link the protests on immigrants’ raids to the Latin Latin Latin governments, and jobs show support for President Donald Trump and his policies.
“Although there is always inaccurate information about it, there was definitely a rise since Los Angeles’s protests began,” said Evelyn Perez-Verdia, President of Are Más, who focuses on social impact consultations. “In the past, we will find wrong or inaccurate information more hidden on platforms like Telegram, WhatsApp. Now more in open and easier on social media and online publications.”
Lies refresh the previous conspiracies that the protests are to provoke a plan from left -wing governments and not a spontaneous response to immigration raids. On his platform, Truth, Trump, which is mainly claimed that the demonstrators “rebellion!”
The mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin New Offers were targets of some wrong information seeking to link them to communism.
A fake dress photo with the late Cuba leader Fidel Castro, with his arm around her has spread on social media. The original image showed Castro with the late activist and former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela.
Bass has some contacts with Cuba. she He traveled to the country with the vencemos brigade In the seventies of the last century to carry out volunteer construction, and later went there as a member of Congress. she Criticize In 2020 to call Castro’s death.A great loss,But the fake image is a step forward to link it directly with Fidel Castro.
“What we see in the Spanish language is different from what we see in English,” said Perez-Ferdia. She added that the wrong information focuses mainly on elected officials, such as newsom and Bass.
“They talk about the extremist left, communist-the actors, whether local or foreign, change the messages based on the society they target,” said Perez-Ferdia.
In some cases, wrong information has made its way to the federal government.
Some conservatives And accounts for social media supporting Russia They distributed a video of Mexican President Claudia Xinbum by the protests, claiming that they encouraged them, According to newsguardThe fact -examining site.
Newsguard stated that this step “was photographed as foreign interference in local US policy.”
During the infringement of an oval office on Tuesday, the Minister of Internal Security He accused Christie Nayyim Shinbum is to encourage “violent protests”.
Shinbum He responded to xSaying that she is “completely wrong” and included a video of herself from the day before to say that she does not agree with violent actions as a form of protest. It is also Accuse From her falsehood, she incited the protests.
In some cases, videos and photos that include the hammer and scythe are removed from the context to make the protests a communist movement. One publication with tens of thousands of views claims that the protests are “urban communist terrorism”.
One published in the Spanish language from an account with more than a million followers glorifying violence against “progressive anti -ice” demonstrators.
Like these positions create a fertile ground for the spread of information. The fake novels in the Spanish language are more prevalent than they are in the English language, according to Darin Linfelil, a professor at the University of Clemerson and co -director of the Media Forensic Center. Social media platforms and closing accounts in English are more likely to determine more than other languages.
Linfelle said that there is another reason for the Spanish accounts more common than the English language is that the use of marketing companies that use fake accounts – on behalf of political organizations or politicians – has risen in the past few years.
Linfelle said that the spread of wrong information “has an impact at all on party leadership, conspiracy thinking, lack of confidence in experience and lack of a kind of common reality.” “It is important for us to build a compromise and the rule of states together. I think it has an impact at all on it.”
“The actress stimulates [bad actors]It is responsible, in exchange for the basic nature of social media to create a giant phone game that generates almost the spread of wrong information, difficult to say. “
