“…Similarly, fake news pieces are not only constructed through exaggeration -which contributes to a stereotyped representation of others, as has already been confirmed by previous studies on the image of immigration in Spanish press and television (Igartua et al, 2005(Igartua et al, , 2007(Igartua et al, , 2011(Igartua et al, , 2012Lacalle, 2008;Marcos Ramos et al, 2014;Muñiz et al, 2006Muñiz et al, , 2008Ruiz-Collantes et al, 2006) -but often by taking the image out of context and showing it in a deceptive manner. Thus, fake news pieces not only contribute to multimodal disinformation about otherness, but also facilitate the generation of hate speech (Fernández et al, 2020;Sanguinetti et al, 2018) by being shared on social networks, resulting in the formation of communities with like-minded opinions, through an appeal to negative emotions towards the unknown, which is presented as dangerous (Engesser et al, 2017a;López-López et al, 2020).…”