The Latest Russia Hoax: ‘Spanish-Language Disinformation’

The left, aided and abetted by corporate media, continue to promote the notion that Hispanics’ ongoing trend away from the Democratic Party is driven in large part by Spanish-language disinformation originating from Russia. The latest and most thorough instance comes via NBC’s MTP Reports.

Watch as NBC journalist Carmen Sesín and Chuck Todd revive a familiar trope while discussing Spanish-language disinformation:

CARMEN SEIN: You may find out that Russia might have been involved in the situation. Recently I was on a press briefing with the National Security Council, before the president of Colombia visited with Biden and he mentioned that  Colombia was extremely concerned over the amount of disinformation being directed from Russia into Colombia. Okay? That…

CHUCK TODD: Using Venezuela? 

SESIN: No, directly…

TODD: Only directly.

SESIN: … directly from Russia into Colombia. Colombia’s very polarized right now. Next year, they will hold presidential elections. This is where all the disinformation comes from. A Colombian pretended political analyst talking about Biden, China was the first disinformation piece I saw.

Sesín, who is based in Miami, doesn’t go further into this alleged Colombian-laundered Russian disinformation. Who is the “supposed political analyst”? Was there any disinformation he/she said about Biden or China? Was this information in any way related to what was found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, including “10% for The Big Guy”? We don’t know, because Todd took Sesín’s representations at face value and moved on to the next question.

In fact, the only evidence of anything even remotely related to Russia that was aired during this 18-minute report was a viral deepfakeThat shows Joe Biden singing with Vladimir Putin “Kulikitaka”. This is obviously not the same as the deepfake depicting Biden, who appears to be easily scared and stumbling down in a corridor while Putin plays his guitar. 

The mere display of this material as proof evident of Russian disinformation only serves to prove that the corporate media think Hispanics are gullible morons.

It doesn’t mean that disinformation isn’t circulating in the Hispanic community. It doesn’t account for Hispanics shifting away from Democrats as many would think.

The lone conservative interviewed for this segment, a Cuban-American mother, expressed a deep distrust for the media, but we didn’t get to hear too much about This. For the record, the conservative Cuban mom also happens to be the mother of the activist belonging to a group, “Cubanos Pa’lante (Cubans Forward)”, which appears to be the next incarnation of “Cubans with Biden”, and whose stated purpose is:

To disrupt the status-quo through education, organization, and mobilization of progressive Cuban Americans 

The campaign link is never mentioned in the report. Instead of conducting rigorous reporting and finding the lessons to be learned from Hispanics’ continued shift away from Democrats, corporate media appear to be more interested in dismissing Hispanics as runaway supplicants seduced by Russian disinformation.

A second inconvenient, or even more damaging, set of facts is again lazily written off by Russian disinformation.