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Deciphering the path of disinformation in Chile: IMFD researchers awarded funding to study the phenomenon
ByPaula Silva 05/10/202115/09/2026

October 2021.- Disinformation and fake news have become a relevant problem for all societies around the world. In Chile, notes Marcelo Mendoza, faculty member at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María and IMFD researcher, “we believe that disinformation has permeated our society, but its impact needs to be measured. We also have not measured the effect…

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Bárbara Poblete and Marcelo Mendoza receive the “Test of Time Award” for pioneering research on rumor propagation in social networks
ByPaula Silva 23/04/202108/09/2026

April 2021.- With a pioneering research effort considered a fundamental piece in the study of the “fake news” problem, the study “Information credibility on Twitter” was awarded at the most important international scientific conference on Web research for the impact of its work ten years after its original publication. In February 2010, following the magnitude…

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