DDIA’s Latinos, Media, and Democracy Program (LMDP) 2026 - The AI Edition is an 8-week capacity-building program designed to support Latino journalists, content creators, media professionals, and civil society leaders with the tools and knowledge they need to understand information ecosystem trends, responsibly use AI, and strengthen engagement with Latino communities in the United States.

Chapter 3 of WhatsApp Weaponized reveals how scammers target U.S. Latinos with crypto and investment scams across Spanish-language public WhatsApp groups. This report highlights how fraudulent trading bots, pyramid schemes, deceptive loans, and online gambling exploit financial aspirations, and outlines key red flags and recommendations to counter investment fraud targeting Latino communities in the United States.

Between January 3 and January 6, the U.S. intervention in Caracas triggered a digital firestorm of at least 80,000 posts with 806 million interactions on open social media platforms in the United States and Venezuela. How were the narrative-setters in English and Spanish?

This article examines how discussions about Nicolás Maduro’s arrest evolved over 72 hours on WhatsApp and Telegram in the United States and Venezuela. Analyzing English- and Spanish-language messages, it shows how early reactions focused on the spectacle of the operation before shifting to debates about legality, governance, and political transition.

DDIA provides a concise, time-stamped overview of confirmed developments following the U.S. military operation in Venezuela, including the capture of Nicolás Maduro, official statements from U.S. and Venezuelan authorities, international reactions, key legal questions, and what remains unknown as the situation continues to evolve.

This analysis examines how the U.S. arrest of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026, triggered a surge of activity on WhatsApp and Telegram. In the first few hours following the events, DDIA tracked the rapid spread of narratives in English and Spanish using real-time social listening. This article highlights how content inside of messaging apps may have shaped perceptions of power, legitimacy, and U.S. intervention during a moment of political uncertainty in Venezuela.

DDIA endorsed the reintroduction of the LISTOS Act, legislation led by Senator Ben Ray Luján to strengthen multilingual content moderation, transparency, and enforcement across online platforms, helping protect non-English-speaking communities from online harms.

2025 REDESCover Recap examines the themes that drove the highest engagement among U.S. Spanish-speaking Latinos on social media in 2025, finding that faith, soccer, entertainment, and immigration dominated online conversations.