Analysis of the most used formats for sharing fake news on Facebook

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  • Zolia Victoria Salamea Limones a:1:{s:5:"es_ES";s:32:"Universidad Técnica de Babahoyo";}
  • Daniel Gustavo Lemos Beltrán Universidad Técnica de Babahoyo image/svg+xml
  • Flora Paulina Astudillo Mancilla Universidad Técnica de Babahoyo image/svg+xml

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formats, share, news, fake news, facebook.

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Abstract

The Pew Research Center report in 2016 points out, the social media with 67% of users around the world is Facebook and the most accessed by users for news. This article presents an overview regarding the current journalism crisis identifying the fakes news spread by social media. This qualitative paper includes bibliography research, content analysis techniques, and virtual ethnography. As a result, the most frequent formats identified to share fakes news throughout social media are four. Additionally, users hardly discern untrue news presented by video or pictures. Moreover, visual and audiovisual formats consume high rates is detected in netizens which reading, listening habits are lack or do not skimming and scanning the news properly entailing a misinformation buckle.

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2021-07-04
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Analysis of the most used formats for sharing fake news on Facebook. (2021). Journal of Science and Research: Revista Ciencia E Investigación, 6(3), 240-256. https://revistas.utb.edu.ec/index.php/sr/article/view/1214

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Artículo de Investigación