English abstract:
The objective of this research is to provide an analysis of the misinformation from the perspective of information science. The method used was a documentary search in specialized databases, the recovery of items, and their analysis, and presentation of results and conclusions. The main results are: a) to describe the misinformation must start from the root of the phenomenon, ie information; b) misinformation is a result of factors such as lack, absence or information overload. The main conclusions are: a) misinformation is a process must be satisfied the presence of three conditions, issuer(s), information and receiver(s); b) misinformation is not to inform or to make tendentious information to be transmitted; c) misinformation is an act that makes and applies to all human activities, individually or collectively.