The Pandemic Infodemic

Abstract

The widespread broadcast of misinformation on social media platform has recently acknowledged a lot of attention in an abstract and general way. While the problem of fabrication in social media has been intensively studied, there are seemingly different definitions of this problem. This project examines the misinformation delusion on social media specifically in a pandemic time. For this purpose, a survey was made for this and participated around 10-15 people and shared their thought. Data and other information is taken from the internet, research, articles etc. In this survey, the main aim was to consolidate the observation and investigate the optimal views of participated audience. Firstly, introduced the misinformation menu fracture of how the small things become viral within minute, as people are using social media a lot, they do dependent in this particular media platform. And the discussed the problem of having in mind of misinformation can create a havoc to a knowledge part, because COVID-19 is the currently most sensitive topic, people’s emotions are mixed with this, but having said that the misinformation are crating the draft to getting the real information. In this way the social media users, readers and audience as well as the social life also getting affected.