Medios audiovisuales de servicio público y desinformación. Principales políticas y estrategias contra las noticias falsas

The increase in false news, which aims to distort reality and create confusion between truth and lies, has become a global social problem. The verification of information has emerged as a fundamental element for the journalistic profession and some experiences have already been launched from various media, platforms and organizations. The European Union has presented an Action Plan - in force since 2019 - to counter any post-truth campaign, based on an increase in resources, coordination, the elaboration of a code of good practice and the creation of verification and contrast groups. of data. In this context, the role of publicly owned audiovisual media does not have to be secondary and must lead a coordinated media literacy process in each Member State to cut the increase in disinformation. The objective of this research is to analyze the policies and strategies that the main European public radio televisions are applying to strengthen the fight against false news. The methodological design to achieve this purpose starts from the systematic review of the scientific literature, which has made it possible to know the main contributions to the state of the question and to generate a story on this topic, which is of growing interest in the area of ​​Communication but not yet comprehensively addressed. In addition, gray literature (memoirs, reports and other documents) and actions carried out by the public televisions under study are analyzed. The results reveal that new policies and strategies are emerging in the public service audiovisual media associated with the fight against disinformation and fake news.