Pandemia virtual: El impacto de las fake news sobre la covid-19, en la red social Facebook

Abstract

The media, whose communicative extension has a strong hold on the networks social services, provide an essential public service for citizens, as they are the main information vehicle for society, in which the principle of truthfulness and commitment to the community. Currently, not only the traditional media fulfill this responsibility, but social networks have become new media for disseminating information, due to its permanent interconnectivity and interaction. These structures formed on the Internet allow all cybernauts to share and publish information that, in some cases, is not true or reliable, but that fills expectations of those who searched for it, with a replica effect, through social networks, reaching people who end up believing and sharing the content, becoming that erroneous information into 'a truth' for various users who receive it. For this reason, without a doubt, one of the main people responsible for handling information that is released in the midst of the current health emergency, due to the pandemic, are social communicators and journalists, who end up finding themselves in a thin online, to know what information to offer, without increasing the panic of the audience and without miss the truth.