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Martina Guzmán

@martinaguzman.bsky.social

Media strategist. Founder of VERDAD, a radio mis/disinformation tracking tool. Director: Race & Justice Reporting Initiative at Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights, Wayne State University Law School. @jskstanford @columbiajournalism

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VERDAD is tackling the blind spot in the fight against radio disinformation. The future of journalism requires us to invest in tools that protect facts, amplify local voices, and help journalists do their jobs. #VERDAD#FutureOfNews #JournalismTools #misinformation rjionline.org/news/verdad-...

31.07.2025 18:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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For anyone feeling the weight of the world—here’s 8 lbs of pure unconditional love. Meet Benji.

22.07.2025 15:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I loved working with Rachel Jones from the @nationalpress.bsky.social and talikng to talk journalists about the new AI tool, VERDAD, and how it can monitor mis/disinformation in Spanish and ethnic radio stations. #MediaTech #AIforJournalism #FutureOfNews

03.04.2025 18:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm wrapping up my week at the #KnightMediaForum in Miami, where @fi2w.org alumni and collaborators @martinaguzman.bsky.social , @valeriafernandez.bsky.social, @maritzafelix.bsky.social, and Alfredo Corchado were showing up for immigrant journalism.

20.02.2025 18:44 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights releases Verdad.app, an AI tool to fight mis/disinformation. “If we are going to be effective in fighting for democracy, we must be ambitious about the tools we use to ensure democracy doesn't die behind closed doors.” giving.wayne.edu/story/damon-...

25.02.2025 16:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Police cars don't usually gather in supermarkets.

10.02.2025 19:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ICE has been gathering around supermarkets.

04.02.2025 22:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Southwest Detroit businesses struggle with immigration anxiety Businesses in Southwest Detroit are struggling to adjust to anxiety surrounding immigration raids.

In Southwest Detroit, you’ll usually find a bustling main street with dozens of Latino-owned businesses. But on a recent weeknight, the barbershops, nail salons, restaurants, tiendas, and bakeries typically buzzing with life after long days of work and school felt eerily empty. @outliermedia.org

04.02.2025 17:45 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Detroit journalist creates tool to monitor misinformation in Spanish language media - WDET 101.9 FM Martina Guzman learned that foreign agents bought airtime on U.S. stations. She decided to do something about it.

When Detroit journalist @martinaguzman.bsky.social learned that foreign agents bought airtime on U.S. stations, she looked for a tool that would monitor their broadcasts for misinformation. When she couldn’t find one, she built VERDAD.

29.01.2025 17:27 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Radio DJs, call-in guests, and, in some cases, commercials are spreading disinformation about immigration and immigration raids on Spanish language and ethnic radio stations in the U.S. Go to the Verdad.app, a new tool that monitors radio and podcasts, to find out what is being spread and where.

27.01.2025 19:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stateside: Friday, Dec. 13, 2024 Today on the show, a new tool for sorting out misinformation on the air. Then, the story of two cyclists from the same small Michigan town going head to head against bikers from all over the world. An...

I was interviewed by @aprilbaerradio.bsky.social on @michiganpublic.bsky.social about VERDAD, the groundbreaking new tool that monitors disinformation on Spanish language radio. www.michiganpublic.org/show/statesi...

17.12.2024 17:39 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Reynolds Journalism Institute and I will host a webinar on how to use VERDAD, a groundbreaking new tool that monitors disinformation on Spanish language and Arabic radio in the United States. Join us. Spread the word.
bit.ly/verdadrji

16.12.2024 18:29 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Disinformation is not just on social media; it has infiltrated Spanish-language radio in the U.S. 97% of Latinos listen to the radio weekly, making it the perfect place to spread disinformation. Journalists can go to VERDAD.app to monitor disinformation on Spanish-language radio.

11.12.2024 18:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Did you know Spanish-language radio often becomes a hotspot for disinformation? VERDAD is here to change that. This innovative tool monitors and tracks misleading narratives.
Go to VERDAD.app
#VERDAD #Disinformation #CommunityTruth

04.12.2024 22:07 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
VERDAD, a new free-to-use tool that helps journalists investigate mis/disinformation spread on Spanish language radio Striving to revolutionize journalism’s ability to investigate and fight mis/disinformation.

We created VERDAD, a free tool to help journalists investigate disinformation on Spanish-language radio. You would not believe what we are finding. rjionline.org/news/verdad-...

02.12.2024 19:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Emerging Details of Chinese Hack Leave U.S. Officials Increasingly Concerned Leaders of the big telecommunications companies were summoned to the White House to discuss strategies for overhauling the security of the nation’s telecommunications networks amid growing alarm at th...

This is why the VERDAD.app is so important. It monitors disinformation on Spanish-language radio where Foreign actors spy and disinform. "Leaders of telecom companies were summoned to the White House amid growing alarm at the scope of a Chinese hack. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/u...

23.11.2024 17:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Misinformation is a global crisis. Led by JSK alum Martina Guzmán, VERDAD (Verifying and Exposing Radio Disinformation and Discourse) helps fight back by monitoring Spanish-language radio for false and harmful narratives. rjionline.org/news/verdad-...

22.11.2024 22:30 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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How to groom a nation By threatening Americans with violence, Trump was using the most patriarchal of scripts: bully them into submission; make them fawn.

How to groom a nation: By threatening Americans with violence, Trump was using the most patriarchal of scripts: bully them into submission; make them fawn. There is a gendered aspect to Trump’s return to power that we cannot ignore. open.substack.com/pub/emotiona...

23.11.2024 04:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Global Risks 2024: Disinformation Tops Global Risks 2024 as Environmental Threats Intensify World Economic Forum, public.affairs@weforum.org

1,400 global risk experts, the World Economic Forum named misinformation and disinformation as the most serious short-term threats to human development. VERDAD.app monitors mis and disinformation on Spanish-language radio.

22.11.2024 19:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Planet Detroit seeks an Editor Planet Detroit seeks a smart and kind Editor to elevate our award-winning newsroom and support our growth as a digital media organization centered on

@planetdetroit.bsky.social A fantastic organization that covers the environment in Detroit is looking for a full-time editor.
planetdetroit.org/2024/11/plan...

22.11.2024 18:48 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Reporter like @desireeyepez.bsky.social doing the hard work of reporting how the Latino are a key demographic for persuasion or voter suppression efforts.

22.11.2024 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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VERDAD, a new free-to-use tool that helps journalists investigate mis/disinformation spread on Spanish language radio. rjionline.org/news/verdad-...

21.11.2024 17:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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