THE IMPACT OF FAKE NEWS IN PANDEMIA
Infodemia is not verified, which is found on different websites or social networks. They are also known as false news (fake news) so when there is an excess of them especially in critical situations such as COVID-19 that is affecting worldwide, can incite distrust, misinformation producing dangerous situations for beinghuman.
Therefore, this analysis will explain how infodemia has caused an impact on humanity, in addition to how we can fight it, among other variants, to identify false news both on the web and in the social networks most used by users, how to distinguishinformation and not easily fall into them.
Infodemia is an issue that has origin long ago, before the use of technology was used as a means of information and entertainment. Those who used this content method did so in order to change public opinion or for political, economic, fraud among other reasons.
At present, infodemia continues to be given for the same reasons why the mass media have the duty to verify the information before being published. The media have always fought for the immediacy of publishing before other means to generate credibility, audience and above all reputation since due to other media and technology 2.0, Internet users live every day with both real and false information on their technological devices.
The best way to combat false news on a website, is to realize if the publication has sources or autoria as a basis for its news, if the review is an impact issue that has to do with some organization, government, health or educationIt can be verified by means of the official pages containing the acronym in its URL .org .Gob .Edu in the end, you can also identify whether the news is current.
Another method for sharing false news is given in popular social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Twitter. Most informative news that occur in WhatsApp messaging, are false since they never have an authorship, it also causes emotional reactions in people causing in the individual the need to share with their contacts, but you should avoid.
Similarly Facebook, Instagram where most share photographs as a method of visual communication, for advertising or other reasons, these can be modified in such a way that they avoid their real meaning causing misinformation, distrust, etc. So it is recommended to investigate the image on Google Image Search or Tineye.
Visual communication encourages and develops visual literacy (AV)
The media over time generated their reputation and credibility, in addition to the audience, so the lack of information can occur at the time of immediate news, that if it is not well verified it can be false, these errors areThey give scarce, so the lack of veracity in the media is corroborated at the time of being fast and precise with information.
But the fault of infodemia has nothing to do with social networks, since excess information occurs in order to generate a change of opinion at the audience either with a political, economic purpose or a scam that is madepass as information. For example, we have several obvious cases in the Covid-19 Pandemia that were revealed by the Police (Technological Crime Investigation Unit), in addition to demonstrating the different articles with which they can penalize these actions.
At present, people cannot differentiate false news from a true one because they do not frequently use technology or do not have an electronic device so it is an inconvenient to update in society and hinder when achieving aworked. So the power agree to consider the distribution of technologies (computers, laptop) to avoid technological illiteracy and benefit the education and progress of the country.
In conclusion, infodemia generates a lot of damage to society, since it misinforms, generates doubts and actions that can harm people. With the arrival of COVID-19 we must all know how to combat false news so as notDoubts arise.
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