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Disinformation is a worrying issue, above all because behind the fake news there is destabilization in society.
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NATO has launched information space analysis programs such as “Setting the Record Straight”to detect trends in disinformation.
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Las fake news they feed on problems or events that greatly concern people.
Through social networks, a young man who decided to ask a girl if she wanted to be his girlfriend went viral, however, she ended up rejecting it in full live broadcast.
And although he was very determined even with a banner and flowers, the girl he couldn’t hide his surprised face, especially because he thought the young man was gay. This video quickly began to circulate on social networks, causing hundreds of comments: “A hero dies and a villain is born”, “The one who shouted NO in the background, is the best friend”, “We are waiting for you in Olympus”, among others.
Until now, This video already has 13 million views and more than 15 thousand comments.
@emigrant0official #sad #heartbreak #desepciondeamor #love declaration ♬ original sound – Emigrantę
The speed with which a situation goes viral today is impressive, which is why verifying the information is relevant, above all because the fake news They spread quickly on social networks. A MIT study found that false information receives 70 percent more retweets that the truthfulwhich means that users share more fake news causing its diffusion to multiply more quickly. This study also found that false information on political issues is not only shared more, but also reaches more than 20,000 people, that is, almost three times faster than false information on other topics. While another finding from this study is that users who share false information often have few followers on social media and at the same time they follow fewer people, so they are less active.
And although misinformation has always existed, the fact that misinformation spreads very quickly is worrying, which makes it a serious challenge to the extent that It is not always obvious to distinguish what is in this news from true and false.
Faced with this spread of false information There are already solutions that help reduce the fake newssome places web help to verify if a piece of news is manipulated, for example, in TinEye.com we can verify images, while on the InVid.com site we can verify videos, although there are also a number of applications called detecting facts.
