Today for to 79 at cardiac. Com or amazon. This is cnn the Worlds News Network thank you so much for joining me this saturday. Im fredricka whitfield, and we begin this hour with our breaking news. Vice president then Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation from cnn to debate former President Trump on October 23. This would be their second meeting on a public like Debate Stage and would take place in the final few weeks of the campaign. After initially rejecting a second debate with harris following his September 10 showdown with her in philadelphia, less quick, trumps suggesting he might be open to another debate saying im quoting him. Maybe if i got in the Right mood and quote the Cnn Debate would mirror the June Debate between Biden And Trump with a similar format in which trump and this time harris would field moderators questions for 90 minutes without a live studio audience. And it would take place at the networks studios in atlanta. Weve got a team of correspondents and analyst
hispanic community how our system works, how our elections work. before they come and they just say a bunch of lies and conspiracy theories. so geraldo, what role do you think disinformation is playing in some of the shift that we re seeing towards the republican party? reporter: it s real. i think it s real, i think it s absolutely happening, and i think that social media companies certainly need to hire more spanish speakers to ferret it out. i think it s also naive for social media companies to think that they re not putting a thumb on the scale of our electoral process by letting this misinformation slide. i will say that, you know, i don t i would be cautious about believing that spanish speaking voters are somehow uniquely susceptible to disinformation, and i would also want to think a little bit historically about what the difference is between disinformation and propaganda that has been used for a long time by the nixon campaign, for
speaking voters was a problem in 2020. just after the election, the new york times reports quote, it appears facebook and twitter might have overlooked the deluge of information targeting spanish speaking americans. that social media was censoring his win and that biden was cheating. zuckerberg decided against proactively providing the connect information to spanish speaking americans. elizabeth is part of the washington post team that broke the story about facebook s decision to ignore spanish speaking voters. she s the post s silicon valley correspondent and joins me now. it s great to have you on. tell me, what was the source of this? were there internal documents that led to this revelation? well, this, first of all, i should say zuckerberg didn t mix the idea. they actually did launch a smaller version of the idea, a whittled down version of the idea where you could text, where
this father and his child. it was there, it was among several of the candidates, and the moderator himself. and on the note of spanish speaking, i wanted to ask you, because a number of candidates took the opportunity to speak directly to the spanish speaking voters. here s a sample p.m. [ speaking spanish ] this is how congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez reacted to that. i loved it, because it did. i represent the bronx. there was a lot of spanish in the building. i mean, i thought it was humorous sometimes, at times.
and beaten their goal. aimed at 30,000, and got over 34,000. just a triumph of civic activism of these kids, until the realities of democracy in maricopa county took old. this is the same arizona county that told spanish speaking voters that election day was november 8th, which is two days after the election. maricopa county says it was just an accident, and we found the county made the same exact spanish language accident on a book mark sent out to voters, telling them when to vote and reduced the number of polling places this year, in maricopa, they closed a third of the polling places opened in 2008, when they had long lines too. voters would likely to have encountered big long lines whether there were fewer places to vote. and what many of the new voters voting found specifically their