Alfonso Vara -- "A citizenry disinterested in the news is unprotected from manipulation and polarisation".
Alfonso Vara Miguel is a professor of Journalism at the Faculty of Communication (FCOM) of the University of Navarra, where he teaches Economics and Economic Journalism, as well as accounting and finance in the Master's Degree in Corporate Reputation (MERC). He is also a member of the Center for Internet Studies and Digital Life and co-author of the [...]
How can we legally defend ourselves against fake news in COVID-19?
An unprecedented situation after COVID-19 What can be done if the company or one of its managers has been affected by false or inaccurate news in the wake of the coronavirus? How can the spread of false news that affects corporate reputation be remedied? What measures can be taken in the face of misinformation or misinformation?
Businesses facing fake news
Fake news has always existed, although social networks and their great capacity to viralise all kinds of content have turned it into a phenomenon of unstoppable dimensions. A phenomenon, moreover, that is no longer linked only to political circles, but also reaches companies and corporations all over the world. [...]
Leading without lies - is it possible?
In our times, plastic has invaded everything to such an extent that a few brave - and long-suffering, it must be said - people boast of living without plastic. They appear in TV reports, working like fools to avoid using a single piece of plastic packaging throughout the day. You have to admire their [...]
UnfakingNews or how to fight disinformation
Why is it now more difficult to recognise The Truth if our knowledge of what we are is so much greater than it has ever been? Does being more informed today mean being better informed? The problem of misinformation has become something that seems impossible to understand today through [...]
Ismael Nafría: "Paying for information is today an irremediable option for the survival of the media".
Ismael Nafría, author of the book «The reinvention of The New York Times», has been advising media around the world for years. He knows the journalistic business well and the challenges faced by the media in these times of change and uncertainty. We take a look with him at some of the issues that are most [...]
Find me an enemy and you will win
If there are two extraordinary episodes in the scenario of fake news spread by social media bots run by communications consultancies, it is Cambridge Analytica and Birnbaum & Finkelstein. Almost everything is known about the former. That Facebook “sold” to Cambridge Analytica -for academic purposes-, detailed information on 50 million of its users without their permission and [...]
Dick Cheney, the ultimate shadow politician
A few days ago, at the presentation of the preview of El vicio del poder in Spain, organised by the journalism forum Conversaciones con, Pablo Pardo, correspondent of the newspaper El Mundo in the United States, summed up the relationship of the all-powerful Vice President Dick Cheney with the press as follows: “Cheney decided to avoid the press, he didn't talk to the [...]