Fake News and Democracy in Latin America

Flórez Hernández, Sandra Bonnie; Marlés Herrera, Maria Susana

Fake News and Democracy in Latin America

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Fecha

2022

Autores

Flórez Hernández, Sandra Bonnie

Marlés Herrera, Maria Susana

Editor

Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian
Księgarnia Akademicka Publishing

Resumen

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.