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Exploration of Fake News and Their Impact on Sustainable Behavior in Controlling COVID-19

In: New Normal in Digital Enterprises

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  • Gülay Asit

    (Cyprus International University)

Abstract

For more than two years, the world is experiencing living with the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the beginning of the pandemic, all kinds of information and news upon the illness have got great importance and are tracked by people with great attention. The media itself has particularly got a valuable role in the pursuit of the news. On the other hand, most of the news has not reflected reality and caused disinformation. Fact-checking websites have come to the surface so as to control the correctness of the above-mentioned news. This research has focused on the checking analysis of the COVID-19 vaccination, seen to be, currently, the most effective way. The content analysis has got adapted to the news of the vaccination extracted from four fact-checking websites in Turkey in the last six months of 2021. Almost all the news double-checked in accordance with the analysis result is fake. The news was gathered on four topics: side effects/harms, the contents of the vaccine, conspiracy theories, and manipulation. Social media means in which such contents are spread mostly is regarded to be Twitter.

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  • Gülay Asit, 2023. "Exploration of Fake News and Their Impact on Sustainable Behavior in Controlling COVID-19," Springer Books, in: Subhra R. Mondal & Ceren Yegen & Subhankar Das (ed.), New Normal in Digital Enterprises, chapter 0, pages 3-26, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-19-8618-5_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-8618-5_1
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