A range of reports discuss Latino communities as being “targeted” by election disinformation which contradicts our observations.

Una variedad de reportes discuten las comunidades latinas como “objetivo” de desinformación electoral, lo que contradice nuestras observaciones.
Most false narratives we've seen are not new but translations of existing narratives into Spanish or Portuguese.

La mayoría de las narrativas falsas que hemos observado no son nuevas, sino traducciones de narrativas existentes en español o portugués.
EIP commented on this yesterday:
EIP comentó en esto ayer:
For example, a user will quote tweet false claims in English, adding a Spanish or Portuguese translation.

Por ejemplo, un usuario retuitea afirmaciones falsas de tweets en inglés, agregando una traducción al español o portugués. Image
A similar translation dynamic can also be observed in Chinese-language content.

También se puede observar una dinámica parecida en el contenido en chino. Image
One narrative unique to the Latino conversation links false claims of voter fraud in the US to similar allegations in 🇻🇪 and 🇧🇴.

Una narrativa única de la conversación latina relaciona las acusaciones falsas de fraude electoral en EEUU con acusaciones parecidas en 🇻🇪 y 🇧🇴.
In addition, we are seeing accounts based in other countries (e.g. Mexico) engage in the non-English US election conversation.

Además, estamos viendo cuentas basadas en otros países (p.ej. México) que participan en la conversación electoral en español y portugués.
These accounts are sharing observations with their (often non-US based) followers, which bleeds into the US conversation.

Estas cuentas comparten observaciones con sus seguidores (en muchos casos basados fuera de los EEUU), lo que se filtra en la conversación de EEUU
To summarize, we see debate and conversation in Spanish and Portuguese across the political spectrum, which includes false narratives, most of which are translations of English narratives. Overall, we are not seeing US Latino communities as being “targeted.”
En resumen, vemos conversaciones en español y portugués en todo el espectro político, que incluye narrativas falsas, la mayoría de las cuales son traducciones de narrativas originalmente en inglés. No vemos las comunidades latinas de EEUU como un "objetivo" de desinformación.

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