The transparency tool in the news about COVID-19 published by Diario Público during the first 14 days of the State of Alarm

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Nadia Alonso-López
Universitat Politècnica de València
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5220-2232
Raúl Terol-Bolinches
Universitat Politècnica de València
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0915-7288

In the Post-Truth Era, it is increasingly difficult to discern between information that is real and information that is not. The proliferation of fake news has led the conventional media to show the process of data verification of published information, as well as the emergence of information verification agencies. With the onset of the pandemic caused by COVID-19 the volume of hoaxes spread by social networks and instant messaging applications increased exponentially. The present research has as its main objective the analysis of the transparency index of the news related to COVID-19 and that were published in the first stretch of the state of alarm, the first 14 days after the announcement of President Pedro Sánchez until its first renewal in Congress. After a previous study, it has been chosen to analyze the information of the newspaper Público, which is the only one that offers a transparency tool that shows the traceability of its information and has been related to some items or keywords. 

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Fake news, COVID-19, Post-truth, Transparency, Diario Público

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Alonso-López, Nadia; Terol-Bolinches, Raúl. “The transparency tool in the news about COVID-19 published by Diario Público during the first 14 days of the State of Alarm”. Hipertext.net, 2021, no. 22, pp. 51-62, doi:10.31009/hipertext.net.2021.i22.05.
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Nadia Alonso-López, Universitat Politècnica de València

Ph.D. in Communication, Master's Degree in Audiovisual Production Management, Master's Degree in Marketing and Digital Communication. She develops her teaching and research work at the Universitat Politècnica de València, where she teaches on the Audiovisual Communication Degree. She is part of the ArtiCom research group and is a member of the Spanish Association of Communication Research (AE-IC). She is the author of several research articles, book chapters, and conference contributions on audiovisual consumption, social networks, disinformation and verification methods, transmedia, and education. She has more than 20 years of professional experience in media as a journalist, presenter, and scriptwriter in news programs, documentaries, and fiction projects.

Raúl Terol-Bolinches, Universitat Politècnica de València

Holds a PhD in Cultural and Communication Industries from the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia. He is currently an associate professor of the Audiovisual Communication Degree, at the Gandia Campus of the same university, teaching the subjects of Radio Production Process and History of Audiovisual Media. As far as research is concerned, Terol has made several contributions in conferences, as well as in printed publications and book chapters, on the current state of radio communication and the presence of sound on the Internet. He has also worked and taught training courses for teachers at the Institute of Educational Sciences of the UPV, on the use of podcasts and social networks in the service of teaching. Apart from the academic aspect, Raúl Terol presents a daily radio program on the regional radio station 99.9 Valencia Radio and founded and was director of the municipal radio station Llosa FM.