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Frenzy journalism involves a determined endeavour to take active part in the subsequent future and development of an event: a journal introduces a topic for several days. This media frenzy undermines objectivity and professionalism in favour of the ideological and financial interests [...]

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The discipline Structural Considerations of Information explores the interests underlying communicational dynamics and information strategies, as well as the ways in which they correlate with messages. Considering this knowledge to be key in Communication Education, and having confirmed [...]

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Orchestrated manipulations spread lies and can create an environment of uncertainty in society, leading to concerns from politicians, scholars, educators, and journalists, among others. In this paper we explore what the emergence of fake news (understood as false news) represents [...]

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The phenomenon of fake news is generating multiple approaches to solve the legal, technological and information and communication issues. One of the approaches would be the use of collaborative knowledge. Some examples and possible challenges of the use of collective intelligence [...]

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The new information flows and the collapse of the journalistic monopoly in the intermediation with the public, have created opportunities and dysfunctions in biomedical information. To the problems of hype and commercialization, those related to the lack of filters and the diffusion [...]

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This investigation aims to verify what kind of contents was most shared in WhatsApp family groups during the 2018 Brazilian presidential campaign and which percentage contained false information. The relevance of this study is justified

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In recent years, there has been an exponential growth in developments aimed at the creation of textual, graphic, audio, and audiovisual content using artificial intelligence. These extraordinary technological achievements offer huge potential opportunities but, at the same time, are [...]

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We are living in a reality in which the practices of access and use of digital information are saturated with disinformation, fake news, and hate speech that are met with no serious repercussions at either the political or the social level. Critical information literacy, as a movement [...]

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Two strategies are proposed for dealing with disinformation by using content curation, which we term “curating the truth” and “curating the lie.” The former is the traditional concept of content curation, which seeks to optimize existing content of value. The latter is a curation [...]

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Media social responsibility is rarely more evident than in the news coverage of a crisis, disaster or emergency. This research analyses the use of and trust in information sources through a nationwide survey of 30 editors-in-chief of Spain’s most relevant newspapers, radio, television [...]