FAKE NEWS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v25i0.72627Keywords:
Coronavirus, Infections by Coronavirus, Pandemics, News, Social Media.Abstract
Objective: This release aims to address Fake News in the Brazilian context of COVID-19.
Development: In the period between January 29th and March 31st, 2020, a search was carried out in the Brazilian Ministry of Health’s database, and 70 Fake News on COVID-19 were identified, namely: 40 pieces of information related to the statements of health authorities, 17 about therapy, nine with preventive measures, two regarding the prognosis of the disease and two regarding vaccination.
Conclusion: The literature on the topic may be scarce; however, it is observed that the speed of Fake News production is relevant, especially when assuming their social impact and spread capacity.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Cogitare Enfermagem reserves the right to make normative, orthographic, and grammatical changes to the published article to maintain the cultured standard of the language, while respecting the authors' style.
The published study is the sole responsibility of the author(s), and Cogitare Enfermagem is exclusively responsible for evaluating the manuscript as a scientific publication vehicle. Revista Cogitare Enfermagem is not responsible for any violations of Law No. 9,610/1998, the Brazilian Copyright Law.
Cogitare Enfermagem allows the author to hold the copyright of articles accepted for publication, without restrictions.
The articles published are licensed under the Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0 - The attribution adopted by Cogitare Enfermagem is permitted:
- Share - copy and redistribute the material in any media or format.
- Adapt - remix, transform and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
- Attribution - You must give proper credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. You may do this in any reasonable way, but not in a way that suggests that the licensor endorses it or approves of its use.
- No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing something that the license allows.