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