Uso del móvil y las redes sociales como canales de verificación de fake news. El caso de Maldita.es

Abstract

Uso del móvil y las redes sociales como canales de verificación de fake news. El caso de Maldita.es Using mobile devices and social networks as checking channels of fake news. The case of Maldita.es

Understanding fake news during the Covid-19 health crisis from the perspective of information behaviour: The case of Spain

“…The sample of fake news analysed was obtained from the Maldita.es website, a project that is part of the International Fact-Checking Network initiative, which has been collecting fake news since 2017 ( Bernal-Triviño and Clares-Gavilán, 2019 ). The methodology, on the basis of which it is established whether a news item is considered false, is described on the website ( Maldita.es, 2018 ); it focuses mainly on the verification process while omitting details regarding the news selection process.…”

“…In this study, health news was classified under science. A previous analysis of fake news collected from Maldita.es revealed that, out of 568 news items, most had politics as the main theme (35%), whilst the rest were distributed among people (15%), immigration and racism (12%), gender (10%) and science (9%) ( Bernal-Triviño and Clares-Gavilán, 2019 ). I decided to remove ‘people’ as a category because many fake news pieces specifically attack people in the world of politics and thus have a political intention.…”

“…In short, during the Covid-19 health crisis, fake news has been spread in a context of great uncertainty and emotional load that has generated a heightened need for information as a mechanism for understanding and adapting to an unprecedented and threatening event. The urgency of the situation has pushed us to look for quick solutions as a response to fake news, misinformation and disinformation – such as guidelines in bulleted points or automatic checks via Google or other information ‘authorities’ such as FactCheck.org ( Bernal-Triviño and Clares-Gavilán, 2019 ) – and a significant proportion of the Spanish population surveyed by the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (2020) supported the idea of a single official information source. In the end, the wide spread of false news calls into question all the knowledge that is produced outside official communication channels, as well as the rights of citizens to exercise their judgement on the information they consume.…”

Credibilidad e implicaciones éticas de las redes sociales para los jóvenes

“…RLCS,Revista Latina de Comunicación Social ,79,[51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68] [Investigación] DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-2021-1512| ISSN 1138-5820 | Año 2021 La presencia de noticias falsas es una de las cuestiones que amenaza seriamente la credibilidad en las redes sociales (Blanco Alfonso et al, 2019). Se ha demostrado que las noticias falsas se difunden con más facilidad, rapidez y alcance que el resto de las informaciones y su principal medio de propagación son las redes sociales (Bernal-Triviño y Clares-Gavilán, 2019;Papadopoulos et al, 2016;Vosoughi et al, 2018). Una alta incidencia de usuarios reconocen haber tenido contacto con noticias falsas a través de gente que no conocen (42%), procedente de políticos (43%) o de organizaciones de noticias (36%) según informan Nielsen et al, (2020).…”

Young Spanish Adults and Disinformation: Do They Identify and Spread Fake News and are They Literate in It?

“…Media organizations have introduced fact-checking. These measures are of interest to the scientific community, with studies documenting the verification initiatives implemented at both the international level [8] and the national level, such as B de Bulo [9] or Maldita.es [10]. The similarities and discrepancies between academic and professional discourse around fact-checking have also been analysed [11], as has the role journalistic deontology plays as a tool in the fight against fake information [12].…”