Fake News en tiempos de crisis : aproximación a su reconocimiento y percepción durante el confinamiento por COVID-19 en Ecuador.

Abstract

In recent years, due to the rise of technological contributions in society, traditional media (radio, television and written press) have been left in the background and social networks have become a new channel of information. Thus, through them, the population now obtains the greatest amount of content quickly, but this has also led to fake news or hoaxes gaining ground in digital space, especially in times of crisis like the one the world is going through now because of the covid-19 pandemic. Within this research, it is considered important to analyze which are the primordial components of misinformation elements that were generated in Ecuador during the first stage of the pandemic and thus to have an approach to the recognition of the fake news, following us by the theoretical characteristics that different authors point out. In addition, an approach is made to people's perception, in order to know if they are able to discern between real or fictitious information. With all these elements we proceeded to close the information with interviews with experts in the field that gave us a more extensive knowledge of how hoaxes have worked in this critical stage.