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The Response trav­els to Mex­i­co City and puts the focus on the 2017 Puebla Earth­quake ” a mag­ni­tude 7.1 quake that top­pled over forty build­ings and killed over 350 people.

In the after­math of a dis­as­ter, infor­ma­tion can mean the dif­fer­ence between life and death. After the earth­quake hit in Mex­i­co City, it was­nt just build­ings that col­lapsed, the nor­mal lines of com­mu­ni­ca­tion that con­nect the city did as well. It was in this dan­ger­ous state of con­fu­sion and chaos that a group of friends using What­sApp to share infor­ma­tion end­ed up cre­at­ing what lat­er became known as Verificado19s, a spon­ta­neous, grass­roots ini­tia­tive that con­sist­ed of a vast net­work of vol­un­teers that trav­eled through­out the city to gath­er and ver­i­fy information.

What can we learn from the efforts of Verificado19s? Are there replic­a­ble mod­els and strate­gies that could be applied to future dis­as­ters? How can com­mu­ni­ties come togeth­er to respond to and chal­lenge the spread of mis­in­for­ma­tion both in the con­text of acute dis­as­ters and also more gen­er­al­ly? These are just some of the ques­tions we explore in this episode.