La responsabilidad de la investigación social como alerta sobre la desinformación en la memoria democrática

Disinformation is a communicative phenomenon inevitably linked to current times. Since the terms 'fake news' were globally accepted to describe a communicative practice, especially since 2016, we have experienced various phases of social response, with successive movements of study, analysis and denunciation. The collective perception is having begun a stage, which appears to us as irreversible, where the Habermasian public sphere would take place mainly in social networks. The phenomenon is associated with a change in political communication, with campaigns that unapologetically adopt the practice of disorientation, sowing doubt in voters about democratic processes and their legitimacy, as…