Coronavirus as a Rhizome: The Pandemic of Disinformation

IF 0.2 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Teija Sederholm, Petri Jääskeläinen, A. Huhtinen
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Abstract

Disinformation and misinformation about COVID-19 have proliferated, particularly on social media The purpose of this paper is to show the rhizomic nature of COVID-19-related dis- and misinformation having aspect of conspiracy theories, which are used on social media platforms to counter the official narratives about the origins of the virus Consisting of 40 news-style articles, the data was used to find out how a conspiracy theory about the virus being a possible man-made bioweapon was presented to the audience The results indicate that the rhizomatic structure of COVID-19 conspiracy theories makes it possible to vary the narratives based on the platform where it is published and the target audience Information spreads in unexpected ways, and it is difficult to control or predict the spread of extremist content This makes it possible for different actors, governments, and organizations to use information for their own purposes as a weapon of information warfare © 2021, IGI Global
冠状病毒是根茎:虚假信息的大流行
关于COVID-19的虚假信息和错误信息已经激增,特别是在社交媒体上。本文的目的是展示与COVID-19相关的具有阴谋论方面的虚假信息和错误信息的根茎性,这些信息在社交媒体平台上被用来反驳关于病毒起源的官方叙述,包括40篇新闻式文章。这些数据被用来找出关于病毒可能是人造生物武器的阴谋论是如何呈现给受众的。结果表明,COVID-19阴谋论的根状结构使得根据发布平台和目标受众改变叙述成为可能。信息以意想不到的方式传播,难以控制或预测极端主义内容的传播。这使得不同的行为者、政府、和组织使用信息为自己的目的作为信息战的武器©2021,IGI Global
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