Fake news and the covid 19

FAKE NEWSand the COVID-19

Fake news and pandemic

• Fake news during crisis
• Consequences
• Impact on population
• Misinformation
• Solution
• Conclusion

• Spreads online
• Messes with truth
• Global health crisis

• Scared people
• Reduce trust
• Stop health plans

Fake news during crisis

• Social differencies worse
• Stop us to work together

• News spread fast
• Cause real problems

Consequences

• individuals
• communities
• public health effort

Vaccine safety

False cure

Exemples

• erode trust in institution
• hard to follow recommended guidelines

• Health
• Livelihoods
• Well beeing of our loved one

Misinformation

Accurate information

Impact on population

• Accurate information
• cut through the noise

• Touch

• Healthcare professionals effort
• Infodemic

• Fear
• Incertainties

• Emotion run high
• Believe and spread
• Sensational information
• Misleading information

Misinformation

Solution ???

Solution

Governement + Tech companies

• Prioritize combating misinformation
• Stricter content moderation
• Transparent algorithms

Building resilience = collective effort

Solution

• Empower oursefves
• informed decision

• How information spread
• Reconise common tactics
• purveyers of fake news

Promoting media literacy

• School
• Communities equips individuals
• Skills to critically evaluate information

Education

• Fight
• Tied to our ability
• Impact of covid
• Culture of
• Criticial thinking
• Responsible sharing
• Collaborating
• Build strong defense
• Against infodemic

Conclusion

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