La era de la desinformación y de las noticias falsas en el ambiente político ecuatoriano de transición. análisis de caso

Abstract

The present research work, degree modality, aims to analyze the problem of misinformation and false news, also translated into English as fake news, in reference to the political context of transition at the country level. For this purpose, a case analysis focused on monitoring the content of an Alianza País militant and monitoring its user account on the Facebook social network is structured. The methodology applied, qualitative cut, employs research techniques such as: content analysis, interviews and virtual ethnography. As a result, the type of false news that occurs in social networks of a political nature and the recurrent themes in these contents are noticed. By way of conclusion, it is considered that the phenomenon of false news is consciously and deliberately produced by users in social networks for private purposes or of particular interest. Finally, it is recommended that the academy should include media literacy programs that promote the recognition of false news and forms of denunciation from civil society. When talking about fake news, it goes hand in hand with the term alternative facts, words that were used by the Trump adviser; Conway, just in the Trump era and when I say that they go hand in hand with the fake news, refers to the fact that things that do not happen, do not exist, likewise a truth made up in the end is a fallacy. The alternative facts are just words that they want to use as smoke screens to hide the true facts that are happening. That is why from those words disguised to the real fact there is a great abyss. This phenomenon originated in a way in which each time the population became a user of these social networks, placing us in the context of Facebook, you only need to have an identity over 13 years to be part of this virtual world, which today more that a fashionable social network has become a necessary and imaginary medium for the human being, beyond all that the platform offers to users this provides entertainment and even a medium as a source of work for the great publicity that the same covers. Misinformation is found in any place and by different means, but those who make this possible are the same citizens who seek a common good and are also part of the people who share this erroneous information, thinking that it is true. All this begins when a person produces a false information and it is shared by a number of people without knowing if what they are sharing is true. This can be seen when we enter a Facebook profile, it is noted that there are publications that have a large number of people who have shared. This generates as consequences an infinity of negative facts. For example, they create erroneous ideas in people who see the news, with deception being the main protagonist, seeking to persuade the planted ideology of the human being, substituting it with a fallacy that harms the good profession, as is journalism. Currently there are a number of devices that make all information is consumed daily and at all times by people. Therefore, there is no filter by which all information passes to be verified, we must bear in mind that the purpose of false news in the first instance is to pretend that it is true and has no second intention. The own or group result that the false news generates is without a doubt a benefit for the providers of the false news.