Artificial intelligence and journalism: diluting the impact of disinformation and fake news through bots
Journal: Doxa Comunicación Revista interdisciplinar de estudios de comunicación y ciencias sociales
Year: 2019

The article addresses the understanding of misinformation as a phenomenon that goes far beyond the term “false news”, increasingly known in Anglo-Saxon idiom `Fake news’. These terms have been appropriate and misleadingly used by powerful actors to dismiss the information coverage leading to complete disinformation and, therefore, to a dizzying fall in credibility. Disinformation, as we discussed in this article, includes all forms of false, inaccurate or misleading information designed, present