Un muro contra las fake newsel caso del diario español Público y su herramienta de transparencia informativa

Abstract

The proliferation of hoaxes on the internet, which exerts unfair competition to the increasingly diminished credibility of the traditional media, is prevailing in the current news scene, in which there are not many instruments available to deal with this wave of hoaxes and lies. The new habits of information consumption in the quagmire of virtual networks, where it is read in a hurry and the context goes to the background, and infundies and contrasted news coexist alike, have created a toxic breeding ground that violates the right citizens to receive accurate information. As if that were not enough, the not always confessable interests of political, economic and media pressure groups also move in this scenario. In this context, it is gratifying with the basic principles of journalism to learn about experiences such as that of the Spanish digital newspaper Público and its TJ Tool for information transparency.