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How did the research team identified "false information" sources, apart from separating formal sources and social media? What was the criteria?

Answer:
-As the definition of misinformation says: False information is defined as the information that lacks of facts, authors or sources. The criteria taken in this investigation was that, whatever lacks of these tools, is fake news.

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How can we distinguish fake information from trustworthy in social media regarding Covid-19?

Answer:
-There are many ways to spot misinformation, for example:

*Reading beyond the headline

*Read the complete article

*Look for the sources and the author

*Look for other places that informs the same thing.

These are some MUST DOs whenever you read some news.

-A trustworthy media platform, like scientific investigation centers, will:
* Have an author and the sources where they get the information
* NOT be bias by any ideology
*NOT look or be sponsored
*Explain facts and not opinions (whenever they are opinions, it should say so).

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After your project, which social media or digital network do you think that young people should use in order to be well informed about Covid 19?

Answer:
-Honestly, none. Social media is a place where anyone can post, comment or share false information and as the platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok or Youtube, continue to miss misinformation, social media is an unsafe place to find reliable information.

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Which news outlets with social media profiles would you consider most reliable or that do not spread misinformation?

Answer:
-A news outlets that would be considered more reliable or that do not spread misinformation should:
* Have an author and the sources where they get the information
* NOT be bias by any ideology
*NOT look or be sponsored
*Explain facts and not opinions (whenever they are opinions, it should say so).

We can't say a specific platform, but we can tell about the MUST HAVEs of each one.

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Is it possible for investigation centers to interact with social media users so they would be more interested? Is some of them already doing that?

Answer:
-Yes, we believe it is possible. They can interact in social media in mainly in two ways. In the spreading of true and trustworthy information, and also collaborating in the organization of the regulation of fake news so social media can have a reliable source backing up the true information, so the system can work in detecting the false one.

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Which social media platform do you consider is the one that has the most misinformation regarding the pandemic?

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Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. These social media have the objective of informing in common, and the regulation for every post is difficult, so misinformation is easily uploaded and spread before the platform can even erase it.

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How can we avoid spreading false information in our social media profiles ?

Answer:
-There are many ways to spot misinformation, for example:

*Reading beyond the headline

*Read the complete article

*Look for the sources and the author

*Look for other places that informs the same thing.

These are some MUST DOs whenever you want to share information.

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In which other way can the survey be improved to achieve completely the objective?

Answer:
- In the survey we could have ask about some fake news, if people have listen about it, if they believed it and where dis they find it, in order to understand the magnitud of misinformation and how did the social media played a role in a case.

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What social media do you consider is the best option for getting reliable information?

Answer:
-Honestly, none. Social media is a place where anyone can post, comment or share false information and as the platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok or Youtube, continue to miss misinformation, social media is an unsafe place to find reliable information.

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Do you have any reliable source recommendation?

Answer:
- Investigation (Bias-free) centers,  Global Organizations pages and scientific articles. It will depend on the news, but generally, these are the reliables sources we would recommend.

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Why do you consider that a lot of false information is spread?

Answer:
-It is normally because the way people is used to read and share news. These culture of getting the information half-complete is the reason why people don't get the complete panorama and easily shares he incomplete of totally fake news.

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Which are the risks of being exposed to misinformation (in social media), according to your research?
What is the damage that misinfomation has created?

Answer:
-The dangers depend on the news, it mainly creates a wrong idea about people, about scientific facts, about investigations or public cases. A simple example would be: If someone publishes that the masks don't work, people who believe it will stop using masks, and that is an attempt against the common health.  In social media, anything can become viral and can be spread and reach a lot of the population. Misinformation creates vulnerability facing reality.

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Which actions do you think young people can take in order to help older people to stop believing false information?

Answer:
-There are many ways to spot misinformation, for example:

*Reading beyond the headline

*Read the complete article

*Look for the sources and the author

*Look for other places that informs the same thing.

These are some MUST DOs whenever you read some news. Young people can start with this culture of information and try to instruct adults.

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What strategies would you recommend people in order to identify reliable sources of information and to some extent stop misinformation?

Answer:
-There are many ways to spot misinformation, for example:

*Reading beyond the headline

*Read the complete article

*Look for the sources and the author

*Look for other places that informs the same thing.

These are some MUST DOs whenever you read some news.

-A trustworthy media platform, like scientific investigation centers, will:
* Have an author and the sources where they get the information
* NOT be bias by any ideology
*NOT look or be sponsored
*Explain facts and not opinions (whenever they are opinions, it should say so).

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In which media would you have recommended population to inform about Covid-19?

Answer:
- Investigation (Bias-free) centers, Global Organizations pages and scientific articles.

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How can you know which social media contains false information and which contains reliable information?

Answer:
-There are many ways to spot misinformation, for example:

*Reading beyond the headline

*Read the complete article

*Look for the sources and the author

*Look for other places that informs the same thing.

These are some MUST DOs whenever you read some news.

-A trustworthy media platform, like scientific investigation centers, will:
* Have an author and the sources where they get the information
* NOT be bias by any ideology
*NOT look or be sponsored
*Explain facts and not opinions (whenever they are opinions, it should say so).

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What can information centers do in order to avoid misinformation in social media and what are the dangers of this tendency?

Answer:
-Information centers can tell and show people through projects like this one, how misinformation is being spread in social media and how easily it is for people to fall for it.
The dangers depend on the news, it mainly creates a wrong idea about people, about scientific facts, about investigations or public cases. A simple example would be: If someone publishes that the masks don't work, people who believe it will stop using masks, and that is an attempt against the common health.

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Which source is the worst for spreading information about covid-19?

Answer:
-Social Media, because in this source, everyone can invent a story and publish it as real. As the media platforms don't have information filters, everything people post, comment or share, is exposed to the rest of the users. That is how mainly the misinformation is transported.

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Do you think that social media is the only way a person can get false information about COVID-19?

Answer
-No, misinformation can be found almost every where, depends on the quality of the organization. People is exposed in social media, television, radio, internet articles, newspapers and magazines. People with influence can as well become a threat.

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After all your research, what should people take in consideration when searching for truthful information?

Answer:
-There are many ways to spot misinformation, for example:

*Reading beyond the headline

*Read the complete article

*Look for the sources and the author

*Look for other places that informs the same thing.

These are some MUST DOs whenever you read some news.

-A trustworthy media platform, like scientific investigation centers, will:
* Have an author and the sources where they get the information
* NOT be bias by any ideology
*NOT look or be sponsored
*Explain facts and not opinions (whenever they are opinions, it should say so).

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Which is the best media for us to get informed ?

Answer:
-Honestly, none. Social media is a place where anyone can post, comment or share false information and as the platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok or Youtube, continue to miss misinformation, social media is an unsafe place to find reliable information.

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How can we recognize a trustworthy media platform to get our information from?

Answer:
- A trustworthy media platform, like scientific investigation centers, will:
* Have an author and the sources where they get the information
* NOT be bias by any ideology
*NOT look or be sponsored
*Explain facts and not opinions (whenever they are opinions, it should say so).

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How does a news outsource’s political bias affects their reliability?

Answer:
-Whenever misinformation is bias, automatically its reliability is questionable due to the fact that something is being forced for you you to learn in the news. The news may be leading the people to think in a close way where the opinion is common and that is not necessarily the complete panorama. So, medium information is as well misinformation.

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What can students like us do to avoid misinformation and rectify the fake news our parents may believe sometimes?