Publication: Los rumores online durante la epidemia en China
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2022-06-28
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En la gran pandemia del COVID-19, se han generado varios problemas sociales, incluida la información falsa, que significa la desinformación severa. El Internet se ha convertido en un canal muy importante para la difusión de estas informaciones, o mejor dicho, de los rumores; y el rumor online ha sido una cuestión social que no podemos ignorar en esta pandemia no solo en China, sino también en el resto del mundo.
En este trabajo, se realiza una investigación mediante el análisis del contenido de 669 rumores online recogidos de una plataforma oficialmente establecida para el desmentido de rumores en China. Según los resultados, existe una preferencia obvia para los internautas al transmitir los rumores de cierto tema, y una prioridad en seleccionar la plataforma en que el gobierno publica mensajes desmentidos: la mayoría de los rumores está difundida por los Chats de WeChat, hablando de los casos nuevos del COVID-19, y el gobierno prefiere lanzar los desmentidos de esas informaciones en sus propias cuentas de Weibo y cuentas públicas de WeChat. Se descubre una alta correlación entre la frecuencia de los rumores y la gravedad de la epidemia. También se plantean unas propuestas contra los rumores online desde las perspectivas del gobierno y de los internautas.
Various social problems have happened in the great COVID-19 pandemic, including the severe disinformation, which brings a great confusion by the mixture of true and false information. Besides, the Internet has become an important rumor-transmission medium, and it's not an isolated case that just happens in China (where the COVID-19 were reported for the first time) but also a very amplified problem in other countries. In this paper, we conducted the research by analyzing 699 online rumors in a Chinese official anti-rumor platform. According to the results, we find that the Chinese netizens have an obvious topic preference in relaying rumors, and the Chinese Government prefers some certain platform to refute the rumor: most of the rumors are spread in WeChat Chats and talk about new COVID-19 cases, and the government tends to release the anti-rumor information on its own Weibo accounts and WeChat public accounts. There is also a high positive correlation between the rumor frequency and the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the final part, we put forward some proposals against online rumors from the perspectives of both the government and netizens.
Various social problems have happened in the great COVID-19 pandemic, including the severe disinformation, which brings a great confusion by the mixture of true and false information. Besides, the Internet has become an important rumor-transmission medium, and it's not an isolated case that just happens in China (where the COVID-19 were reported for the first time) but also a very amplified problem in other countries. In this paper, we conducted the research by analyzing 699 online rumors in a Chinese official anti-rumor platform. According to the results, we find that the Chinese netizens have an obvious topic preference in relaying rumors, and the Chinese Government prefers some certain platform to refute the rumor: most of the rumors are spread in WeChat Chats and talk about new COVID-19 cases, and the government tends to release the anti-rumor information on its own Weibo accounts and WeChat public accounts. There is also a high positive correlation between the rumor frequency and the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the final part, we put forward some proposals against online rumors from the perspectives of both the government and netizens.