Fake News and the challenges of truth in the digital age

The availability of information on various platforms, such as social networks, has expanded the range of alternatives that consumers have to find out about various events in the public and private sphere. In this context, the book focuses on the impact of social networks on the construction of the public agenda and the mass media, given their increasingly preponderant role in communication. The work studies possible causes of Fake News and its potential social effects by generating speculation around such delicate topics in a given society.