Noticias falsas y su impacto en la sociedad en épocas de pandemia

The objective of this article was to analyze the impact of fake news on people's behavior during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. For this, a systematic review of information was carried out, which consisted of analyzing bibliography related to fake news. The bibliographic sources were taken from databases such as Ebsco Host, Springer, Emerald Insights, Scopus, Scielo and Google Scholar. The range of years of publication was not limited, accepting as valid, articles until the year 2021. The filters used and the keywords that were taken into account were "false news", "fake news", "false news COVID-19" , “fake news and social networks”, “fake news and society”, the most important inclusion criteria being that the article focuses on the relationship between fake news and the current COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 47 bibliographic references were obtained, which coincide in the fact that the main source of proliferation and dissemination of fake news -which, currently, have generated feelings of fear and doubt in the population regarding the current pandemic — are the social networks, since they do not carry out proper control of the information that is shared on them. Therefore, it is concluded that the fake news spread by social networks have a negative influence on users, increasing their fear and leading them to make decisions that in many cases can threaten their health, therefore, the different platforms of The main social networks must implement efficient control systems for the information that is shared in them, so as to stop its dissemination