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Disinformation, Fact-Checking and Civic Responsibility
  • ISSN: 1757-1898
  • E-ISSN: 1757-1901

Abstract

The internet offers the ability to access a large amount of information quickly. However, this immediacy and oversaturation has negative aspects, such as informative disorders. This research aims to clarify whether the complex global landscape introduces scenarios which differ from one another by factors that we can point to as being responsible for different levels of vulnerability towards information disorders. Thus, this study applied a qualitative methodology based on the collection of relevant information of 50 participants, using online groups to generate a common space which offered a certain degree of intimacy. Within the results obtained, there is a remarkable hypersubjectivism amid all the groups that stands out above individual and/or ideological differences. Finally, this research demonstrates that citizens, regardless of their ideological positioning, perceive different factors which can make them more vulnerable to disinformation: the importance of fact-checking, abundance of information and immediacy.

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • The European Commission (Award 2020-EU-IA-0252)
  • Luca de Tena Foundation
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