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Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
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Thematic dossier
International Relations and Social Networks
July 2021
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DISINFORMATION PROPAGATION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS AS A DIPLOMACY
STRATEGY: ANALYSIS FROM SYSTEM DYNAMICS
ALFREDO GUZMÁN RINCÓN
alfredo.guzman@asturias.edu.co
PhD candidate in Policy and Public Management Modelling from the Universidad Jorge Tadeo
Lozano (Colombia). Master in Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios
Superiores de Monterrey and Commercial Engineer from the Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y
Ambientales U.D.C.A. Director of Research at the Corporación Universitaria de Asturias and
Editorial Coordinator of Ediciones SUMMA.
BELÉN RODRÍGUEZ-CÁNOVAS
brcanovas@ucm.es
PhD in Economics and Business Administration from ICADE. Degree in Statistics from the
Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Business
Administration, ICADE together with a Master's Degree in Data Mining and Business Intelligence
from the Complutense University of Madrid. She is a reviewer member of the European Journal of
Marketing.
Abstract
Disinformation on social media has positioned itself as a strat