FAKE NEWS - Tool in the Information War in Ukraine

Abstract

Two months after the outbreak of the war on our border with Ukraine, in addition to the components of a classic, occupation war, we are witnessing the use of hybrid warfare strategies, with vehicles characteristic of the use of platforms, social networks, advanced I.T. technologies, adapted to the mechanisms of information warfare. The aggression of fake news is part of this war waged with the tools specific to this phenomenon, along with the known propaganda mechanisms. The media is such a vehicle, but it is also the one that deontologically develops the contents and messages of this phenomenon. We will report and interpret information from the national and international press about this phenomenon that is unique in the strategies of war around us.