NEW AQ: Can Latin American Democracies Survive the Age of Fake News?
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AQ Online
Misinformation is diminishing confidence in the region's democracies, but there are solutions within reach.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on the battle over fake news | Leer en español | Ler em português The image on our cover, a photoshopped image depicting Pope Francis smoking marijuana with former Bolivian President Evo Morales, thus “proving” the Argentine pontiff is a decadent socialist at heart, was the most ridiculous recent example of fake news we could find. But it was hardly the most damaging. This special report of AQ focuses on the profound, and possibly terminal, threat that fake news and misinformation pose to the democracies of the...
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