FAKE NEWS IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A DISSERVICE TO BRAZILIAN SOCIETY
The present study aims to categorize fake news about COVID-19, in addition to pointing out the main strategies for tackling this false information in Brazil. The methodology consisted of two stages: survey and categorization of news about COVID-19, and the search for strategies to minimize impacts o...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB) |
| Repositório: | Cenas Educacionais |
| Idioma: | português inglês |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.uneb.br:article/9300 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://www.revistas.uneb.br/cenaseducacionais/article/view/9300 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | COVID19 Fake News Disinformation Infodemia Social Media COVID-19 Desinformación Redes Sociales Desinformação Mídia Social |
| Resumo: | The present study aims to categorize fake news about COVID-19, in addition to pointing out the main strategies for tackling this false information in Brazil. The methodology consisted of two stages: survey and categorization of news about COVID-19, and the search for strategies to minimize impacts of news identified as false, from January to May 2020. In the survey, 186 Fake News about COVID-19, which were later categorized into 5 themes: cure and prevention of COVID-19, disbelief in isolation, dubious research, data manipulation, quality of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and scams on social networks. Thus, it was highlighted that 37.6% and 28.5% of the news were related to data manipulation and deceptive ways of curing or preventing the virus, respectively. In addition, in the search for strategies to combat fake news about COVID-19, there was an emphasis on the initiatives of Federal and State institutions with the dissemination of truthful information through social media. The study managed to achieve the proposed objective, however, it was understood that hundreds of new fakes news are shared all the time, and with that, it was not possible to cover in this work all the news that are published and shared in the information vehicles. Thus, there is a need for further studies on the effects, reasons and who favors the promotion of this type of information. |
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