2023-06-01 16:17:27
These are characters created using artificial intelligence, presented as working for American channels, then taken up by public television as if they were journalistic investigations, “ it is not Venezuelan television that says it, it is a media established in the United States and in a good part of Latin America “, proclaims a presenter while the channel in question does not exist.
The NGO Cazadores de fake news has identified several accounts, very active on social networks, which relay these videos. Sometimes it’s bots, but not always, as Maria Virginia Marin of the ProBox association explains: “A lot of them are real people who are paid to spread this propaganda or disinformation. » Some can earn up to 80 dollars a month, paid through a system that is also used to pay social assistance to residents.
In Haiti, gang violence spreads to Carrefour
The town located south of Port-au-Prince was until now relatively spared from the bandits but, for a few days, it has been shaken by deadly violence. Armed groups “make the lawsummarizes Frantz Duval, editor-in-chief of the news writer, they attack the police stations, they killed a policeman. » The public administration could not function yesterday (May 31, 2023) and many residents are trying to take shelter and avoid the streets. “To go to Carrefour, you have to go to Martissantcontinues Frantz Duval, but the police have not been able to do this for two years, they cannot send significant reinforcements to Carrefour and today the police are not yet in a position to go around or cross to help Carrefour. »
Mobilization against the water crisis in Uruguay
Thousands of people protested yesterday (May 31, 2023) against the government’s decision to add salt water, from the mouth of the Rio de la Plata river, to the fresh water distributed in the capital and its surroundings. The demonstrators want to know the real extent of the crisis. “ Concrete measures will have to be taken, especially for certain sectors of the population », warns the president of the Federation of civil servants of the OSE, the public water operator. The newspaper La Diaria collected the confidences of an official of the Ministry of the Environment: “ The rains of last week will not be enough to overcome the water deficit “. A difficult scenario is looming, with the use of even more salt water… water already not recommended for people suffering from illnesses such as hypertension and for babies.
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In Guadeloupe, local authorities, consular chambers and the State have looked into the new “regional development scheme”.
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