Campaign comes amid warnings that company removes Spanish misinformation less consistently than English material
Members of
Congress and activist groups have called on
Facebook to address its “Spanish-language disinformation crisis”, urging the company to make major policy changes on the platforms it owns.
In a new campaign launched on Tuesday and coordinated by the Real Facebook Oversight Board, an advocacy group, the
Democratic representative Tony Cardenas of
California and groups including Free Press Action, the Center for
American Progress and the National Hispanic Media Coalition charge that Facebook is not doing enough to combat “rampant Spanish-language disinformation” circulating on Facebook,
WhatsApp and
Instagram that is putting Latino communities at risk.