id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-033329-gi0mug1p	Montesi, Michela	Understanding fake news during the Covid-19 health crisis from the perspective of information behaviour: The case of Spain	2020-10-06		.txt	text/plain	8281	362	43	A sample of 242 fake news items was collected from the Maldita.es website and analysed according to the criteria of cognitive and affective authority, interactivity, themes and potential danger. The results point to a practical absence of indicators of cognitive authority (53.7%), while the affective authority of these news items is built through mechanisms of discrediting people, ideas or movements (40.7%) and, secondarily, the use of offensive or coarse language (17.7%) and comparison or reference to additional information sources (26.6%). An important part of the research has focused on the analysis of all kinds of information spread via social media (Cinelli et al., 2020; Ferrara, 2020; Singh et al., 2020) , whilst others have suggested interventions for improving news and science literacy as empowering tools for users to identify, consume and share high-quality information (Vraga et al., 2020b) . In this research, a sample of fake news items collected by the Maldita.es project during the Covid-19 health crisis in Spain was classified according to the criteria of authority, interactivity, theme and potential danger.	./cache/cord-033329-gi0mug1p.txt	./txt/cord-033329-gi0mug1p.txt