Miriam Reyes | Impulso Newspaper | Original Spanish Version
To curb the impact of disinformation, it is necessary to educate people with correct and quality news information, with in-depth journalistic investigation that gives citizens the appropriate elements so that they are in better conditions to analyze a situation and prevent it from being deceived or manipulated to benefit the interests of an individual or a small group, according to Cameron Hickey, an expert on disinformation and its effects on democracy.
The president of the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) and winner of the Emmy award for his work on PBS “News Hour” reported that problematic content that is disseminated through the internet can be identified as; misinformation, rumors, conspiracy theories, fake news, hate messages, all of this, to confuse and deceive people.
