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Fake news and coronaviruses on Twitter. Case study Donald Trump, studies the fake news that saturate the global political debate, driven by the power of dissemination and exposure of social networks; undermining an already weak trust in the media and institutions. Donald Trump was the one who in 2016 popularized the expression" fake news", which has become a rhetorical weapon to attack, above all, the media. With the coronavirus pandemic, rumors and false information on health exploded. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, according to other studies, was one of the main actors in the construction of disinformation worldwide, through his favorite channel: Twitter.