Fake newsFake news: throughout history, whether due to ignorance or manipulation, two recurring attributes among humans. In fact, power systems have often been built on fake news transformed into undeniable truths, which have generated various mechanisms of submission and domination. The entry into the world of digital communication, with its immense capacity for propagation, has led us to a moment in which the use of... fake news It's so overwhelming that it operates like a kind of parallel reality, leading to great confusion. To the point that those who have made it their way of being in the world risk being caught in the contradiction, which is what's happening to Trump with his back-and-forth statements, which are increasingly exposing him. So much so that sectors of the Republican Party that until now had lived in his shadow are asking him to end the war because they realize that the presidential fabrications are rapidly losing credibility.

"The far-right and the ultra-right have announced the end of this government since day one. Now, moreover, by spreading hoaxes about my health." This is how Pedro Sánchez expressed himself this Thursday in a message on the social network X, with which he denied being ill. The Spanish president reacted after the far-right media outlet Libertad Digital, owned by Federico Jiménez Losantos, published alleged information this week claiming he suffers from a "cardiovascular condition". A theory that PP deputy Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo amplified this Wednesday in Congress.

The contemporary explosion of the phenomenon of fake news On a media scale, this occurred during the 2016 US presidential elections. Ten years ago. Donald Trump himself—the winner of those elections—is the creator of the meme. His communication exacerbates the spectacular nature of politics and is based on polarization as content in itself. The creation of these memes was done without restraint, without inhibitions or denials, to an exponentially higher degree than usual, and in a way that has become the style of many parties that take Trump as their communication model—or rather, the school of Steve Bannon, his then-chief strategist.

The festivities for this year's edition of the ARA Children's Daily have come to a close. On Tuesday morning, November 25th, at the La Mercè Cultural Center in Girona, the awards ceremony was held for the teenagers from the seven primary and secondary schools in the city of Girona who illustrated the special edition of the newspaper on November 20th, coinciding with World Children's Day. This 2025 edition... The central theme was the fake news And for the first time in the project's 13 years, the students not only illustrated the newspaper's interviews, news stories, and reports, but also wrote some of the published articles themselves. Specifically, the young people from Girona signed the articles of the supplement Girona Regions last ThursdayThe publication, comprised entirely of articles, illustrations, and opinion pieces written by teenagers from 5th grade to 4th year of ESO (secondary school), from the participating schools: FEDAC Sant Narcís; Montessori; and the Montilivi, Jaume Vicens Vives, Maristas, Mediodía, and Ermesenda high schools. At the awards ceremony, held for the second consecutive year in Girona, all the teenagers were able to read their own work and received a copy of the 20th edition of the newspaper as a gift. Accustomed to screens and getting their news that way, they consulted the papers repeatedly, something they had likely rarely done before, delighted to see their work recognized in a traditional print publication.

Now it seems that truth is a matter of opinion and comes disguised in a thousand versions, all dressed in the same typography, with the same urgency, and often with the same ill intent.fake newsThey have become a central threat to a society accustomed to jumping to conclusions before thinking.

Students from 5th grade of Primary School to 4th year of Secondary School from six educational centers in Girona have participated in the competition of informative pieces and drawings on the right to informationAnalyzing the rise of disinformation and fake news, the project, organized by ARA and UNICEF, with the collaboration of the Girona City Council and Plataforma Educativa, involved more than 100 students from IES Ermessenda, Maristes Girona, Migdia School, Montessori Girona, IES Montilivi, Fedac Sant Narcís, and IES Vicens Vives. Unlike previous competitions, students were asked to write informative pieces, not stories, on the topic of disinformation and fake news. fake newsMost of the participants wrote opinion pieces. Below are the winning entries and drawings. The prizes will be awarded on Tuesday, November 25th at the La Mercè Cultural Center in Girona.

On the first anniversary of the devastating storm in the Valencian Community, marked by a state funeral, the most pressing issue is the 229 preventable deaths, a tragedy that will forever haunt the political leaders who failed to rise to the occasion, especially President Carlos Mazón. A man who was slow to arrive at the Civil Protection Coordination Center (CECOPIO) on that fateful day and is even slow to resign. According to World Weather Attribution, a collaborative forum of scientists specializing in the impact of the climate crisis, the storm of October 29th was 12% more intense due to global warming caused by greenhouse gases.

When someone in a political context receives criticism based on alleged rumors, there are two possible reactions. The first is to defend oneself using legitimate arguments, that is, by providing evidence to neutralize the accusation. The second, however, involves questioning or denying the accusation. A real and fairly recent case: someone claimed that a politician had included an academic degree on his resume that was actually falsified, and thanks to this, he obtained a professional position that wasn't his. The clearest and most honest response seemed obvious: provide said document, or admit that it didn't exist. All other actions to refute what someone has said—including, in this case, an alleged suicide attempt—are worthless, no matter how spectacular or even dramatic they may be. There is another old way of neutralizing criticism: using fallacies, whether basic and predictable or more sophisticated. One of the most common is the infantilizing one. tu quoque (in Latin, "you too"): "Are we corrupt? And you, eh? Don't you remember, the case such and such..." Another very common one is the accusation ad hominem, that is, it doesn't take into account the content of the criticism but instead attacks the person who made it, and in this way it thinks it can avoid it. The list would be very long and it moves according to trends. For example, for years what is ironically known as reductio ad hitlerum (The phrase was coined by Leo Strauss, by the way.) It consists of criticizing something simply because Hitler advocated or practiced it. "Hitler was a vegetarian, a teetotaler, and a non-smoker; therefore..."

To the prejudices pointed out by feminist women, immigrants, poor people, Roma people or the LGBTIQ community, we must add the impact of misinformation, the lies that spread like wildfire through virtual profiles. It is not that false information is a modern scenario, but in the last decade there has been "a turning point", starting with Brexit and the first elections in which Donald Trump won in the US.

November 9, 2024. Argentina. Christian Martin, European correspondent for La Nación+ (LN+), reporting from the United Kingdom, talks about the floods of Cadaqués with a false image. Instead of showing on-screen photos of cars crammed into the riverbank, the Argentine news program depicts the downpours with the Onyar River, at the height of Girona's iconic colorful houses, filled with cars swept away by the force of the river. What Argentines perceived as just another piece of news, for Girona residents—when the video spread on social media—was a demonstration of the extent to which images generated by artificial intelligence can alter our perception of reality and generate misinformation.

In recent hours, reports have gone viral suggesting that the Bank of Spain had issued a warning warning the public against paying rent via bank transfer. According to reports published by various media outlets, the Spanish financial supervisory body has detected an increase in the number of scams involving this type of payment. However, this warning never existed, and the central bank has denied the information circulating online to the ARA. "Payment by bank transfer is normal and poses no risk in itself," sources at the agency assure.

1. Truth. In 1943, Alexandre Koyré denounced the truth that does spring from its universality but rather from its conformity to the spirit of race, nation or social class. He called it "the modern lie". The foundations are still the same, but the potential for deception has not stopped growing, even if the forms may be milder than at the time when the Russian-born philosopher of science, who made his career in France, was writing.