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La desinformación en las redes de mensajería instantánea. Estudio de las fake news en los canales relacionados con la ultraderecha española en Telegram

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espanolOne of the most uncontrolled and wides-pread sources of misinformation are the instant messaging platforms, mainly due to the privacy of the communication spaces created in them. The dissemination of false news on these networks makes it difficult to detect them and thus complicates the task of fact-checking. Both WhatsApp and Tele-gram were used and integrated in the elec-toral campaign of the previous elections in the United States (Journell, 2017; Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017), in the United Kingdom on the occasion of the Brexit (Kucharski 2016), in Brazil (Novomisky, 2018), and recently in the autonomous elections of Andalusia (Spain) (Viejo, 2018). This research takes as a case study the communication flow in Telegram during the campaign for the 2019 General Elections in Spain and aims to analyse the disin-formation distributed in Telegram by Vox EnglishOne of the most uncontrolled and wide-spread sources of misinformation are the instant messaging platforms, mainly due to the privacy of the communication spaces created in them. The dissemination of false news on these networks makes it difficult to detect them and thus com-plicates the task of fact-checking. Both WhatsApp and Telegram were used and integrated in the electoral campaign of the previous elections in the United States (Journell, 2017; Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017), in the United Kingdom on the oc-casion of the Brexit (Kucharski 2016), in Brazil (Novomisky, 2018), and recently in the au-tonomous elections of Andalusia (Spain) (Viejo, 2018). This research takes as a case study the communication flow in Telegram during the campaign for the 2019 General Elections in Spain and aims to analyse the disinformation distributed in Telegram by Vox.