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Social Media Misinformation’s Effect on the General Population Under COVID-19 the Public’s Emotional Response to False Material

Authors
Zhi Zheng1, *
1Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
*Corresponding author. Email: 19905938169@163.com
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Zhi Zheng
Available Online 9 September 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-092-3_74How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Covid-19; Disinformation; Social media; Emotional
Abstract

This paper discusses the explosive spread of disinformation under Covid-19 due to increased public use of social media. With the public unable to judge right from wrong, mass emotions can be affected, especially in societies in the midst of a Covid-19 outbreak, where misunderstood or insensitive language may be amplified in social media and mass emotions become more sensitive. Disinformation on the internet affects people’s independent judgement and appeals to emotion reduce the audience’s incentive to verify sources and question the authenticity of news, objectively reducing the cost and resistance to the spread of fake news and leading to mass anxiety due to misinformation. Covid-19 outbreak, disinformation may mislead the masses to use the wrong methods to defend themselves against the virus, leading to life-threatening risks.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 9th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
9 September 2023
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10.2991/978-2-38476-092-3_74
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2352-5398
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10.2991/978-2-38476-092-3_74How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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