Nuevos agentes de desinformación masiva. Análisis de las publicaciones de los influencers políticos españoles en Instagram

  1. Palacios López, Maitane 1
  2. Bonete Vizcaíno, Fernando 1
  3. Gelado Marcos, Roberto 1
  1. 1 Universidad CEU San Pablo
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    Universidad CEU San Pablo

    Madrid, España

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Revista:
Estudios sobre el mensaje periodístico

ISSN: 1988-2696

Ano de publicación: 2023

Título do exemplar: Monográfico: "El impacto de la desinformación en las rutinas profesionales y soluciones basadas en la inteligencia artificial".

Volume: 29

Páxinas: 919-932

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.5209/ESMP.88576 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Outras publicacións en: Estudios sobre el mensaje periodístico

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Resumo

Social media has impacted the way content is both produced and consumed at a mass scale. Influencers have gained, in this new scenario, a notable ascendence over their large audiences; and, though there have been several attempts at analyzing their role, many have lacked systematicity (Riedl et al., 2021). This research aims to shed light on two main research goals: determining whether political influencers disinform; and, if so, detecting possible patterns in the disinforming content that reaches their audiences. In order to do so, the most relevant political influencers were identified, and, subsequently, the contents produced by them were analyzed using the taxonomy on disinformation proposed by Kapantai et al. (2020). Findings show that influencers play a key role in disseminating disinformation on Instagram, since the vast majority of the accounts analyzed (92%) do generate this type of content, which have a large impact on young audiences

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