Fake News, Vaccine and the Types of Disinformation
The main objective of this study is to select and analyze texts related to the issue of vaccines and public health that circulated between January and April 2018, time when the country experienced an outbreak of Yellow Fever in the Southeast Region, on the digital social networking sites, which were...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN) |
| Repositório: | Cadernos de Linguística |
| Idioma: | português |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs3.cadernos.abralin.org:article/267 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/267 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Fake News Vacina Saúde Desinformação Mídias Sociais Vaccine Health Disinformation Social Media |
| Resumo: | The main objective of this study is to select and analyze texts related to the issue of vaccines and public health that circulated between January and April 2018, time when the country experienced an outbreak of Yellow Fever in the Southeast Region, on the digital social networking sites, which were verified and published by the website Boatos.org. It is characterized as a qualitative analysis and uses the Seven Types of Disinformation (WARDLE and DERAKHSHAN, 2017) as a methodology to classify such information and understand its construction process. In a second step, it seeks to raise hypotheses for its dissemination process and lists possible solutions for solving the phenomenon. In the analyzed period, a total of 07 news items on the examined topic were found on the website and almost all of them were classified as Misleading Content (the intentional manipulation / distortion of factual information) and Manufactured Content (new content that is 100% non-factual, created to deceive harm). At the origin of the dissemination process are: (a) financial motivation: websites make money from clicks on articles and fake news goes viral more than factual news; (b) theory of Social Ties: for Granovetter (1973) people make decisions by endorsing their “Strong Ties” relationships. Knowing this, producers of non-factual information invest (I) in the production of more informal texts that are closer to readers and (II) in the dissemination of information through social media, betting on affective bonds. |
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