Online misinformation is spreading from English to Spanish

Yale Climate Connection
More than 40 million people in the U.S. speak Spanish at home. And as the climate warms, many of their communities are harmed by intensifying heat waves, storms, and wildfires.

So Spanish-speaking people need access to accurate information about the causes and consequences of global warming. But false and misleading content is pervasive online.

“You want to find out more about what information is getting targeted towards these communities,” says Cristina López of Graphika, a social media analytics firm.

The nonprofit Green Latinos, with support from Friends of the Earth, commissioned her team to study how Spanish-language misinformation about climate change spreads on platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. MORE