Proven: Fake news is the domain of the far right

From both ends of the spectrum, they accuse each other of lying and manipulating. And, certainly, we would find examples of political manipulation across the ideological spectrum, including the (alleged) centre. But academics from the Netherlands have done a Carles Porta to try to shed light in the darkness. They have analysed all the tweets available between 2017 and 2022 made by each of the European parliamentarians, as well as those from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. In total, more than 32,000 tweets from 8,198 politicians. From the analysis of the links they have shared, the conclusions are clear: far-right populism is "the most likely to spread disinformation". On the contrary, parliamentarians "from the centre-right, the centre-left and the populist far-left are not linked to this practice". The analysis could only be carried out in 2022 because, since Elon Musk has been the owner and lord of Twitter, he has prevented this type of mass export of tweets for evaluation. There must be a reason for that.

There is an equidistant discourse that tends to equate the extremes, but it would be fair to recognize that, in the field of information – or rather, disinformation – it is the extreme right that has spent decades perfecting a communication system where factuality is only the lettuce that you leave on the side of the plate and not the fact itself. Where interpretation, a euphemism for indoctrination, eats up information and any notion of equity when it comes to reporting on the parties in conflict. It is the school of Fox News, of Losantos, ofOk DiaryThere is an extreme political right and an extreme media right. But don't be misled by the name: they are increasingly central, in part, because of this war of disinformation.