COVID-19 and Fake News

Javier Bustos Díaz; Ruben Nicolas-Sans

doi:10.3390/encyclopedia1040088

Encyclopedia (Nov 2021)

COVID-19 and Fake News

Javier Bustos Díaz,
Ruben Nicolas-Sans

Affiliations

Javier Bustos Díaz: ESIC Business and Marketing School, Passeig Santa Eulália, 2, 08017 Barcelona, Spain
Ruben Nicolas-Sans: ESIC Business and Marketing School, Passeig Santa Eulália, 2, 08017 Barcelona, Spain

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia1040088
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 1, no. 4
pp. 1175 – 1181

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COVID-19 can be defined as a global pandemic caused by a coronavirus that first surfaced in 2019. Fake news refers to false reports that can be found in digital media. The combination of these two concepts creates an especially mismanaged situation that can result in widespread unease among the population, to whom the news appears continuously and without quality filters.

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ISSN: 2673-8392 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/encyclopedia

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