The dangerous impact of ‘fake news’ on the lives of Spanish speakers in the United States ( english.elpais.com )

bbbhltz , 6 months ago

My partner is Spanish. Most of the news her family (from Spain) shares is fake as hell.

jarfil , 6 months ago

Spain has a public TV, that is relatively neutral and mostly free of fake news (except on Dec 28, that’s the April Fools day for Spain), but some find it too “bland”. Then a bunch of regional TVs that spin everything each its own way, a “catholic” one, and some private nationwide TVs that live from “engagement” (aka: controversy). Plus the usual share of scam filled tele-shops, fortune readers, casinos and similar.

As for newspapers, with their digital editions, there is no neutral one. Right, Left, Sports, Market analyst BS, all flavors of regional nationalisms, a bunch of “engagement” based ones, down to content mills, and random scammers. Pretty much any “shareable” piece of news, either has a heavy slant, or is BS. That’s when it isn’t directly fabricated as a “meme”.

Without digging deeper, I’d only consider anything shared from RTVE… but that’s usually too boring and lacks the “wow” factor to get shared in the first place.

bbbhltz , 5 months ago

This sounds precise. My partner’s family is ultra conservative. Nothing they share is bland. It is all sensational, end-of-the-world level stuff: the immigrants are coming, the government is controlled by Illuminati, “they” gave us COVID and are making us eat insects while “they” eat like kings, economic collapse is just around the corner…

Not a thing on climate change, though…