Los Medio Digitales ante la Crisis Humanitaria. Haití, Honduras, Venezuela, Rusia-ucrania Y Siria

Nowadays, the media must play a social role in the service of the target audience, especially during high-impact events such as humanitarian crises and disasters. During this period of social imbalance, the propagation of misleading images, videos and information intensifies and causes a false illusion of truth and reality, contributing to the quality of information being sacrificed for immediacy and mass consumption (Toledano and Ardevól-Abreu, 2013). Under this premise, students of the Communication career of the Salesian Polytechnic University, Ecuador have conducted the following work entitled "Report No. 1 of the International Observatory on Digital Media in the face of Humanitarian Crises", with the aim of analyzing and verifying the most relevant events on humanitarian crises around the world and the involvement of the media in their impact. It should also be mentioned that this first report is part of a research project developed by the Gamelab-UPS research groups and the Communication, Education and Environment group (GICEA). The objective of the First International Observatory is to verify and analyze the fake news and hoaxes that deliberately circulate on the web. To this end, they have carried out a thorough analysis of the information disseminated by the most important media in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. Ultimately, knowledge of reality is what allows content receivers to form an opinion about the world around them; however, the excessive flow of information and fake news undermine this credibility, generating disinformation (Gonzales, 2019).