This paper is based on a survey examining social media political activity of 2,326 Latinos & 769 non-Hispanic whites. We augmented the survey with digital trace data from a subset of respondents.
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1) Latino online political activity, such as sharing news and discussing politics, is on par with white Americans, with one notable exception: Latinos were much more likely to use WhatsApp than whites (57% to 15%).
3) Latinos who rely on Spanish-language news on social media (relative to those who use English news) are more likely to believe in election fraud narratives about the 2020 presidential election.
This is the second study from this project. The first, published in November at PNAS Nexus, found that Latinos who use Spanish-language social media for news were 11-20 % points more likely to believe false political narratives than those w/English-language content.
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1) Latino online political activity, such as sharing news and discussing politics, is on par with white Americans, with one notable exception: Latinos were much more likely to use WhatsApp than whites (57% to 15%).