From topics about voting to the notorious coronavirus, misinformation targets different communities and minority groups as victims, filling fear and unprecedented worry about things that concern the nation. The Latino community is one of the minority groups that have been a target of misinformation.
Reports have claimed that misinformation in the English language has been translated to Spanish to target the community that uses the language, propagating wrong information that can harm or even break someone s reputation. Incidents of the actual spread of misinformation are recorded.
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Associated Press mentioned an incident in Las Vegas when the former Chairman of the Democratic Party, Tom Perez, guested on a Spanish Language show when a caller blasted baseless complaints about both parties, encouraging Latinos not to cast their votes at all.
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