The intentional production of disinformation to generate damage is not a new phenomenon, but it gains different outlines due to the widespread access to the connection and mobile devices, the popularization of media production media in various media, the consolidation of a handful of platforms that support content generated by third parties – whose business is based on data collection, micro-segmented advertising and audience maintenance – and the migration of content sharing to instant messaging systems, such as WhatsApp and Telegram.

Certainly, in the face of such a complex phenomenon, few certainties remain, but important to be affirmed.

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