Sources certified to the Fake News.The case of Facebook, Google and Microsoft against disinformation during Covid-19
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https://doi.org/10.55777/rea.v13i26.2158Keywords:
COVID-19, Fake News, Health crisis, DisinformationAbstract
Fakes news has become one of the main problems of our communicative ecosystem. Although this information usually leads to doubts or distortions of reality, during the health crisis caused by COVID-19 they have become an added problem by proposing and affirming to audiences forms of prevention, procedures or medicines that not only do not serve to prevent this disease, but can even be counterproductive or harmful. It is here that the detection of false news plays an essential role, as well as its subsequent verification. This study addresses this issue by identifying the tools that have been implemented by large technology companies to reduce and limit the spread of fakes news. To this end, the methodology focuses on the collection and analysis of these tools while the conclusions show that the processes followed by these companies that massively distribute information are based on the traditional media pillars of journalism. Therefore, in a convulsive stage where media agitation and disinformation are rewarded, the value of traditional journalism is revalued.
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