Patricia Peña, co-researcher of the Fondecyt Project on #RegulaciónConvergente, inaugurated the event organized by the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Center of Universidad de Valparaíso (CINV) with the conference “Disinformation and the Role of the Scientific Community: Supporting Information Resilience and the Integrity of Information”.
In her presentation during the Eleventh CINV Meeting, “Between Reason and the Algorithm: Role of the Scientist in the Era of Disinformation”, Peña warned that disinformation not only affects citizens but can also target the scientific community itself.
“Researchers are not free from being subjected to disinformation, and this is a risk that we need to recognize in order to deal with it in a critical manner,” she pointed out.
Another significant point was the role that journalism has historically had in data verification, which is facing a radically different scenario today. “The media ecosystem has changed completely. People are no longer who decide what circulates, but algorithms that automate information flows. This forces us to rethink how we understand and handle disinformation in the digital era,” she explained.
She also stressed the importance of studying this phenomenon from a situated perspective. “Studying disinformation in Europe and in Latin America is not the same. Culture, political contexts and the ways in which we get information are different, and this requires situating the discussion in our own reality,” she stated.
Peña’s intervention initiated a day of interdisciplinary reflection in which researchers and journalists analyzed how science can help tackle the challenges of disinformation in the era of algorithms.
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