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The years 2021 and 2022 are set to be major periods for elections across Latin America and a roundup of how information operations have affected them can help to shed some light on the current state of the region's information ecosystem and where future information operations may be focused. ....
BBC News BBC Trending Published image captionSome indigenous people refused a Covid-19 vaccination False information from the mouths of politicians and preachers is reaching remote villages in the Amazon via WhatsApp, reports BBC News Brasil s Juliana Gragnani. A helicopter loaded with health workers and coronavirus vaccine doses took off from Labrea, in the southern part of the Amazon, heading to a village some 50km away. But the villagers, part of the indigenous Jamamadi group, greeted the chopper armed with bows and arrows - and demanded that it leave. They d been hearing false rumours about vaccines and wanted reassurances from a religious missionary - not doctors - before getting jabbed. The helicopter left without administering any of the doses. ....