Fake News and Democracy in Latin America
Diverse territories of Latin America are immersed in important situations to-day. The region is not only facing shortages, inequities, and inequalities a large part of the population has to live with, but also constant information, disin-formation and fake news that permeate their minds and erode th...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | Colombia |
| Institution: | Universidad Simón Bolívar |
| Repository: | Repositorio Digital USB |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:bonga.unisimon.edu.co:20.500.12442/13233 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12442/13233 https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.19.2022.81.04 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Fake news Freedom Democracy |
| Summary: | Diverse territories of Latin America are immersed in important situations to-day. The region is not only facing shortages, inequities, and inequalities a large part of the population has to live with, but also constant information, disin-formation and fake news that permeate their minds and erode their freedom of decision and action in democratic processes. The scenario they are going through calls for a deep shake from its foundations, given the discourse of knowledge beyond a robust wave of information, coming from unusual sourc-es, some of them disrupting the effort to ascertain the truth of the facts and being apparently at the service of economic and/or political hegemonies. This text proposes a comprehensive approach to fake news and the scope of influ-ence they have on individual freedom with repercussions on the weak Latin American democracy. |
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