Enrique Castejon-Lara, Universidad Central de Venezuela

Abstract
The world of public information has been severely affected by the disproportionate increase in
fake news, due to the uncontrolled impulse that social networks have given them. The prob-
lem is extremely complex because it involves the entire society, regardless of cultural levels,
ideologies or socio-economic conditions. Such is the impact of this situation that the tradi-
tional journalistic media have found it difficult to unravel the truth in an incessant whirlwind
of confusing information without support from the facts

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