La propagación del COVID-19 es la tercera guerra mundial”, el fact-checking y las noticias falsas

Abstract

False news, better known as fake news, won popularity during the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. For this reason, this research studies the post-truth concepts and the role played by the media when denying the circulating misinformation in this context. Moreover, the origin of the "infodemic" was specified, along with the emergence of the covid-19 pandemic. Though, it is one of the triggers in an era of digitization in today's society. As well as, the impact this information had on public-network in digital spaces, better known as social media. To highlight the development of fact-checking around the world coming from the pandemic is analyzed. Whereby content verification without any scientific argument is studied. To complete this study, not only the audio but also a tweet that became viral and numerous interviews were analyzed by specialists who contributed their critical thinking to the current project. In addition, a qualitative textual analysis and a quantitative content analysis were carried out to emphasize the relevant points of the two cases previously mentioned. These led to the verification of both hypotheses. The first affirms that the study sought ideological impact, and the second ensures that a media message sought to increase a politician's popularity. Therefore, the quantitative data, logical relationships, and implicit statistics were collected from observed journals.