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Coronavirus in Spain: Fear of "official" fake news boosts WhatsApp and alternative sources

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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10016/30665
ISSN: 2183-2439
DOI: 10.17645/mac.v8i2.3217
UXXI: AR/0000025451
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2020
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Cogitatio Press
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The communication of the Coronavirus crisis in Spain has two unexpected components: the rise of the information on socialnetworks, especially WhatsApp, and the consolidation of TV programs on mystery and esotericism. Both have emergedto "tell the truth" in opposition to official sources and public media. For a country with a long history of treating scienceand the media as properties of the state, this very radical development has surprised communication scholars.
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Coronavirus, Covid-19, Fake News, Journalism, Social Media, Spain, Whatsapp, Youtube
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Media and Communication. V. 8, n. 2 (2020), pp. 462-466
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