BOGOTÁ, Colombia In Colombia, nearly five hundred people a day have died of the coronavirus over the last three weeks, the nation’s most dramatic daily death rates yet. Argentina is going through the “worst moment since the pandemic began,” according to its president. Scores are dying daily in Paraguay and Uruguay, which now have the highest reported fatality rates per person in the world. “The vaccines are coming too late,” said María.
As nations like the United States prepare for a summer of hugs, gatherings and other activities safe for the vaccinated, nations still scrambling for shots are seeing some of their worst outbreaks.
Inside the fight to close the Spanish-language disinformation gap on Facebook
2021-03-16 16:00:00 UTC
As Facebook continues its effort to reign in misinformation, some activists argue it isn t enforcing its policies as adequately for Spanish-language posts in the U.S. â a failing that could impact the more than
Misinformation and disinformation posts in Spanish are similar to what you might see in English, but there are some key differences that specifically single out Latinx people on the platform in the U.S. In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, fake news stories in Spanish tried to tie Joe Biden to socialism, a particularly damaging piece of misinformation given socialism s history in authoritarian Central and South American governments,