Posverdad y pensamiento crítico en la formación de estudiantes de Derecho en Bucaramanga, Colombia

Abstract

In the contemporary context of post-truth and misinformation, both globally and locally, the objective of this process of social appropriation of knowledge (PASC) is to train students of the Faculty of Law in the academic spaces of Anthropology (first semester) and Analytica IX (ninth semester) to identify, analyze, and deconstruct fake news, thus fostering critical thinking and discernment in a digital environment saturated with misleading information. Upon completing the PASC, an improvement is evident not only in the ability to identify fake news but also in the way students express their critical thinking on the topics addressed. The exercises carried out constitute a valuable resource for contrasting the initial way of presenting critical arguments with the way their argumentative lines evolved when analyzing post-truth and fake news.