The ICTs and the interconnectivity that they have brought to society have caused social phenomena to spread across the globe at a rate that can only be described as viral. This further limits the time available to society for their understanding, to ponder them and, if necessary, stop them with measures born of social science studies. This article has the modest objective of helping create the critical mass of studies necessary, through a review of the literature, to allow the formation of a basic understanding of the mechanisms that make the post-truth work, the way they work, the factors that make possible its success and, with all the necessary help, the measures that hypothetically can be taken from civil society, the academic world and political power to prevent groups that have been marginalized from democratic life for their values opposed to coexistence, continue to slip through the cracks of the digital information system to impose their agenda and prejudices to society as a whole. To this end, the necessary fact that the dissemination of false or adulterated information is not really new is outlined. And that ICTs have simply given wings to a phenomenon that had been boarded so far by acting on the media and holding them legally responsible for the information they published. In the context of the net, interact simultaneously people from all nations, creating a legal limbo in which, credibly, the body that detects an infraction has no jurisdiction over the suspect.

Las tecnolog?as de la informaci?n y la comunicaci?n (TIC) que se han establecido en la sociedad han provocado que los fen?menos sociales se extiendan por el globo a una velocidad calificable solamente como infecciosa. Ello limita todav?a m?s el tiempo con el que la sociedad cuenta para entenderlos, juzgarlos y ?llegado el caso- atajarlos con medidas nacidas de la ciencia social. Este art?culo tiene el objetivo de ayudar a crear la masa cr?tica de estudios necesaria, mediante una revisi?n de la literatura, que permita crear una comprensi?n b?sica de los mecanismos que hacen funcionar la posverdad, la forma en que funcionan, los factores que posibilitan su ?xito y, con toda la ayuda necesaria, las medidas que hipot?ticamente puedan tomarse desde la sociedad civil, el mundo acad?mico y el poder pol?tico para impedir que grupos que han sido marginados de la vida democr?tica por sus valores ajenos a la convivencia contin?en col?ndose por las rendijas del sistema de informaci?n digital para imponer su agenda y sus prejuicios al conjunto de la sociedad. En el contexto de la red, interact?an simult?neamente personas de todas las naciones, creando un limbo legal en el que el ?rgano que detecta una infracci?n no tenga jurisdicci?n sobre el responsable.