Manuel Ortiz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
Although Facebook ?a company led by Mark Zuckerberg, recently exposed for selling users' personal data to third parties? has served as a perfect platform to disseminate human rights violations., censorship to campaigns in favor of social justice, scientific dissemination and gender equity, and the promotion of hate speech against minorities, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, the Latino migrant community and sexual diversity, most of the information circulating on this digital platform is garbage; noise is generated around urgent causes, which, in turn, generates confusion among users.
This company has become a space virtual ideal to propagate ignorance, misinformation and hate campaigns orchestrated by the power groups who hide, for the most part, behind anonymity. To a large extent, this explains the enormous echo that the current U.S. president, Donald Trump, has on social networks.
In the last 30 days, according to The New York Times, Trump received 60 million "likes" and comments on Instagram, a platform owned by Facebook. Meanwhile, on the official Facebook page of the candidate for re-election in the United States, Trump generates messages that are often characterized as promoting misogyny, racism, white supremacism and fake news. ?the permanent irony of the businessman's discourse?, thus reaching the enormous and implausible figure of 130 million reactions.
It is no coincidence that Facebook, where Trump and his followers move like fish in water, is considered by both the International Center for Journalists ?ICFas well as by Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, the socio-digital space with a grossly high level of disinformation on COVID-19. Therefore, based on the study of these two institutions, Facebook was considered a "prolific disinformation channel".".
