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Málaga, España
The article aims to describe and explain the degree of political knowledge of future communication professionals in a context of rise of fake news. For this purpose, a questionnaire with thirteen questions about national, international and economic news was distributed among Journalism, Audiovisual Communication and Advertising and Public Relations students from the University of Málaga (n=586). The regression analysis (adjusted r2 = 0.444) indicated that the main explanatory variables of the test are: program studied, interest in politics and gender, whose gap, also present in previous works, seems particularly worrying. Self-perceived social class, interest in other informative sections or internship experience also conditioned political knowledge.
