Misinformation
Misinformation uniquely impacts historically marginalized communities. For Asian Americans, these problematic narratives can range from inaccurate COVID-19 health information shared on platforms like WeChat to misleading voter guidance deliberately spread by bad actors on and offline. Our research indicates that factors such as language barriers, limited media literacy resources, and media platforms' inadequate investment in non-English content moderation leave our communities particularly vulnerable to these harms. We address these threats through rapid response narrative monitoring, corporate accountability advocacy, and community-centered solutions.
Media Consumption: Advancing Justice | AAJC's 2025 focus group report, Beyond Language Translation, finds that factors such as immigrant generation, political views, preferred language, and ethnic identity influence susceptibility to misinformation. Building off findings from these sessions and a parallel nationwide survey, our 2026 report, Converging Exposures, Divergent Experiences, finds that these same factors impact the kinds of sources Asian American communities access and their day-to-day experiences with and attitudes towards misinformation. Across both reports, we call for increased investment in trusted, in-language messengers who can counter false narratives targeting Asian Americans and other vulnerable communities. Read our reports here:
Beyond Language Translation | Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC
Converging Exposures, Divergent Experiences | Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC
Narrative Monitoring and Inoculation: Our misinformation team actively tracks emergent online narratives spreading within and about Asian American communities across various social media platforms. This includes monitoring potentially problematic stories related to voting rights, education, immigration, and racial profiling—among other issues—across platforms and Asian languages. As threats emerge, we coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to address these problematic narratives through fact-checking, inoculation, and narrative change resources.
Check out some of our counter-narratives below:
Don’t Be Fooled by the Fearmongering Around the Border: Part 1 | by Advancing Justice – AAJC
Corporate Accountability: AAJC advocates for more robust and transparent content moderation policies and substantive in-language fact-checking. Our misinformation team flags stories that fall through the cracks for media companies. We monitor biases and disparities that may arise from automated content moderation technologies and crowd-sourced anti-misinformation efforts, such as Community Notes.
Read our blog post responding to recent changes to Meta’s content policies below: