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INPRIMATU
Technology
Disinformation game
Diana Franco 2024ko apirilaren 10a

Many times I think we get too much information, and how well it lives in ignorance. With so much information, it seems that the possibilities we have for humble people to understand the objectives of the different powers and the behaviors associated with them are like never before. But it's not free, because all that information influences the lives we want to live peacefully, and we need to look more critically at the information we receive. In this sense, the not-for-profit organization Tachtical Tech has published an interesting educational material to support our use in the digital environment, directed mainly to journalists, to understand the capacity of the disinformation networks that work in the digital environment to shape our world. Material title: “How to detect online disinformation networks”.

The author of the guide, Nicola Bruno, recommends four steps to pull the thread of misinformation: First: to analyze whether the website disseminates misinformation (shares resources to contrast the data that may exist on the websites that disinform). Second: look at who's behind the web. Third: follow the money (in this case, it proposes to analyze the forms of advertising funding used by the web, for example, by looking at the websites associated with ID advertising). The fourth and final, see how the content of this website is disseminated on social networks, which are the most effective way to access different niches of people in the digital environment, and offer numerous possibilities of diffusion of misinformation.

It really seems to me to be hard work, so that the work that journalists and sometimes the citizens in this maremagnum do not fall into the game of misinformation.