To fight bad information, a project taps trusted messengers in immigrant communities

Late last year, Scarlett Lanzas was chatting with neighbors — a group of fellow immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean — at the community pool in their housing development in Miami. That’s when Lanzas heard a neighbor say something in Spanish that was not true.

The woman asked the group if they had heard that the presidential election was not going to happen in 2024.

“And I was like, ‘What?’ ” Lanzas remembered. “‘Where did you get that from?’ ”