Posted on Apr 28, 2022
Vietnamese diaspora in Seattle are tackling misinformation
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In 2020, the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington took a look at misinformation being spread online about voting in person and by mail. They found a surprising number of social media posts in Vietnamese.
After collecting information across sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, Post Doctoral fellow Rachel Moran and Sarah Nguyễn, a Ph.D. student, began having conversations about how Vietnamese people navigate their information environments.
For Nguyễn, the conversations ahead of the research were already personal.
Growing up Nguyễn said her family hardly discussed politics. A lot of that changed in 2020 against the backdrop of COVID-19 and the George Floyd protests. At that time, Nguyễn found out that her mother got a lot of news via Vietnamese YouTube videos, programs that were in Vietnamese and led by other Vietnamese people.
The information was egregious, she said.
After collecting information across sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, Post Doctoral fellow Rachel Moran and Sarah Nguyễn, a Ph.D. student, began having conversations about how Vietnamese people navigate their information environments.
For Nguyễn, the conversations ahead of the research were already personal.
Growing up Nguyễn said her family hardly discussed politics. A lot of that changed in 2020 against the backdrop of COVID-19 and the George Floyd protests. At that time, Nguyễn found out that her mother got a lot of news via Vietnamese YouTube videos, programs that were in Vietnamese and led by other Vietnamese people.
The information was egregious, she said.
Vietnamese diaspora in Seattle are tackling misinformation
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..."“In our focus groups, people would share that they had given their parents an article from Viet Fact Check. And they, their parents would say, ‘Oh, no, they're communist,' or "They're socialists,’ as a way of shutting down the conversation,” Moran said.
Nguyễn and Moran hope to move forward with more research. The two want to conduct workshops with local organizations like Friends of Little Saigon. Their hope is to hear more from Vietnamese communities across the nation and find out what’s working.
“The heart of the project is trying to understand what makes misinformation sticky,” Moran said. “What makes it stick with people and help shape their worldview or their decision making around elections.”...
..."“In our focus groups, people would share that they had given their parents an article from Viet Fact Check. And they, their parents would say, ‘Oh, no, they're communist,' or "They're socialists,’ as a way of shutting down the conversation,” Moran said.
Nguyễn and Moran hope to move forward with more research. The two want to conduct workshops with local organizations like Friends of Little Saigon. Their hope is to hear more from Vietnamese communities across the nation and find out what’s working.
“The heart of the project is trying to understand what makes misinformation sticky,” Moran said. “What makes it stick with people and help shape their worldview or their decision making around elections.”...
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