Thinking about misinformation, from the contribution of philosophers

Abstract

Today's information consumption requires new skills and abilities on the part of users, such as the criteria to validate the content they receive, before taking it for granted and thus incorporating it into their ideas about reality. Media competencies to deal with disinformation must address not only the instrumental, but also thinking about how ideas and knowledge are configured, as well as methods of refutation. In this task, it is possible to gather aspects of thought fertilized for more than two thousand years, by philosophers such as Socrates and Plato, who shed early light on how to consolidate the knowledge of reality, through maieutics and dialectics. An approach to these concepts and perspectives on disinformation as something inherent to human nature are the ideas with which this essay is made.