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COVID-19 and Fake News: Knowledge Assessment and Discrepancy of Social Media Users in the UAE

العنوان بلغة أخرى: جائحة كوفيد 19 والأخبار الكاذبة: تقييم المعارف والتباين بين مستخدمي وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي في الإمارات العربية المتحدة
المصدر: المجلة الجزائرية للإتصال
الناشر: جامعة الجزائر - معهد علوم الإعلام والإتصال
المؤلف الرئيسي: Almansoori, Azza (Author)
مؤلفين آخرين: Snoussi, Thouraya (Co-Author)
المجلد/العدد: مج24, ع1
محكمة: نعم
الدولة: الجزائر
التاريخ الميلادي: 2022
الصفحات: 71 - 79
ISSN: 1111-4479
رقم MD: 1270654
نوع المحتوى: بحوث ومقالات
اللغة: الإنجليزية
قواعد المعلومات: HumanIndex
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كلمات المؤلف المفتاحية:
Fake News | Misinformation | Agenda Setting | New Media | Social Media | Trust
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المستخلص: Fake news and misinformation are everywhere nowadays, including news sources and social media. During the Covid-19 pandemic, people rely on news, especially news coming to them from social media. The study's objective is to understand why and how people rely on social media sources during the Covid-19 pandemic and what they do with misinformation and fake news related to the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to that, the study aims to determine the essential issues and items related to Covid-19 among social media users. The study will be relying on several mass communication theoretical concepts, such as agenda-setting theory and uses and gratifications theory. The study’s methods will include a structured online survey distributed among social media users to understand the reasons for their consumption of news on Covid-19 and their level of trust in social media news. Data showed that almost 64% of the respondents get their covid-19 news from social media in a daily basis. While in regards of the perception of participants concerning the fake news circulating in social media about Covid-19 pandemic, results showed that almost half (46%) of the respondents think that information shared about the number of infections and death due to covid-19 sometimes were fake and misinformation. In addition to that, data shows that more than half (87%) of the participants claimed that they check for accuracy before sharing any news on social media.

ISSN: 1111-4479

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