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Infodemic during an epidemic
http://dx.doi.org/10.21931/RB/2020.05.02.17
"We're not just fighting an epidemic; we're fighting an infodemic," were the words of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), referring to the continually circulating false news about the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. WHO explains that infodemics are an excessive amount of both real and inaccurate information about a problem, making it challenging to identify a solution, they create confusion in the population by spreading erroneous information, misinforming with apparently real data. The amount of time and other essential resources that can be affected by this problem make it a priority to combat (1).
The existence of social networks and the internet is for better or for worse is one of the differentiating factors between this pandemic and the previous ones. From the manipulation of information for ideological purposes or material gain to simple jokes in the form of memes or chains on social networks, this disinformation can have substantial repercussions on the population by generating panic (2). The clickbait nourishes many of these publications to its rapid spread reaching large sectors of the population in a matter of hours. This erroneous information presented by some media or shared on social networks has covered everything related to the virus from where it was generated to how it is spread. For this reason, pages like the World Health Organization have devoted themselves to destroying myths and correcting erroneous information such as those that claim that sunlight, warm weather, and drinking water can affect the coronavirus (3).
An excellent way to avoid this problem and get reliable information is according to Neil Walsh, chief of the Cybercrime and Anti-Money Laundering Section of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), is to visit the pages of official sources and instructed on the subject as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (1).
