Divulgación científica como tendencia emergente en la educación, investigación y desarrollo territorial

Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, disinformation and false news were detected in the mass media; During the COVID-19 pandemic, disinformation content and fake news were detected in the media, exposing unregulated data and misleading information about the results of measures and mechanisms for monitoring research on the disease, revealing a lack of scientific and informative rigor, which gave as a response, that some groups of scientists and research centers of prestige, took the decision to integrate networks to demystify some alleged reports resulting from research, as well as implement new methodologies of scientific knowledge transfer, where the fake information of social networks was confronted, to visualize that such veracity was questionable, and that users were subject to influence, generating an uncertain infodemia, for some data that were unpredictably true, for this, some research centers or public institutions of higher education in Latin and Central America concerned that society find reliable sources and information, took the decision and opportunity to demonstrate the veracity of the information that was issued through the consolidation of research networks and increased investment in experimental research.