Resumen

KLOSS MEDINA, Steffanie  y  LOUIT CARRASCO, Javier. The fake news during the chilean social outbreak and the role of fact checking against disinformation. Comuni@cción [online]. 2024, vol.15, n.1, pp.18-29.  Epub 03-Nov-2023. ISSN 2219-7168.  http://dx.doi.org/10.33595/2226-1478.15.1.1031.

The objective of this research is to understand the impact generated by fake news on the political perception and critical thinking of citizens who receive information through social networks during the Social Outbreak in Chile, and to assess the value of new independent fact checking media created during the same period. The methodology employs a mixed approach with an exploratory scope, involving the creation of an assessment tool used to evaluate 95 subjects from the Biobío Region, Chile who assessed and categorized a news item as true or false. The primary findings reveal that participants perceive sharing fake news as a perilous action, and they hold the belief that fake news has the potential to alter political and social ideologies. In conclusion, assessing subjects' strategies for identifying fake news allows for the development of evaluation tools that promote data verification and enhance media literacy. This becomes crucial as the criteria for verification among active social network users are often low, indicating a level of credibility in published content without thorough scrutiny of data sources or acknowledgment of the risks associated with disseminating potentially false information.

Palabras clave : Fake news; post-truth; data check; social outburst; social networks.

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