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Director's Reflections | Hinge journalists. True or false

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00:00Listín Diario presents Sunday Reflections.

00:04Director's Reflections for Sunday, June 29, 2025.

00:08Hinged journalists. True or false?

00:11This is the current dilemma for millions when consuming news on social media and digital platforms.

00:17Faced with the avalanche of misinformation and synthetic content,

00:20the public is asking, how can we distinguish what is verifiable from what is misleading?

00:25This skepticism explains why 40% of people actively avoid the news,

00:30a figure that has remained stable over the past two years.

00:34The fear of falsehood fuels distrust, aggravated by post-truth and fake news.

00:39Paradoxically, traditional media, print, radio, TV, remain the most trusted due to their rigor and transparency.

00:47However, they are losing audiences to social media,

00:49where 71% of young people under 35 prefer to get their information from these sources,

00:56according to the Oxford Reuters Digital News Report 2025.

01:00Why, then, are platforms with less veracity triumphing?

01:04This is where so-called alternative journalism is emerging,

01:07in which influencers and creators on TikTok, YouTube or Facebook

01:11capture massive audiences with news content.

01:14The divorce between credibility and consumption reveals a crisis of relevance, not quality.

01:19Rigid formats, slowness to adapt to digital narratives,

01:23and emotional distance from new audiences have turned rigor into an invisible strength.

01:28Meanwhile, alternative creators master the art of empathetic immediacy,

01:33simplifying complexities and using generational codes.

01:37Verification tools are only a patch if they are not accompanied by critical digital literacy.

01:42Artificial intelligence now generates personalized news that reinforces biases,

01:47creating bubbles where the plausible displaces the verified.

01:51It is urgent to teach distrust, even of what seems technically perfect.

01:56This intersection between tradition and innovation demands hinged journalists,

02:00professionals who preserve reporting ethics but master microformats,

02:05explosive podcasts, viral threads, fact-checking on reels.

02:09Examples such as El Pais explaining geopolitics on Twitch,

02:13or the BBC debunking hoaxes with memes demonstrate that rigor can be a trend.

02:18To future journalists, I say,

02:21you are the first generation trained in and for this hybrid ecosystem.

02:25Your mission is twofold,

02:27to demand algorithmic transparency from platforms

02:30and to humanize data in traditional media.

02:33The truth is not in retreating to the ivory tower or surrendering to the easy click,

02:38but in building bridges of credibility with boots on the ground in both worlds.

02:42For Listine Diario, voiceover and translation by Danny Leon.

02:47Listine Diario presented Sunday Reflections.